Rossen Quotes & Sayings

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago ... because she's going to have the nuclear code. — Matt Damon

Toni, you bring me luck. I'm gonna wear you like a charm. — Robert Rossen

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult. — Daniel Rossen

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage. — Elizabeth Goudge

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. — Daniel Rossen

...As for having him only while on earth... that IS how it stands now, but don't give up. He's a really good person, Jane. And he loves you... You've got to have a little faith -- And keep dreaming. Some happy endings just take a little longer and are harder to come by. — Michele Paige Holmes

In dreams you can have the feeling that you've had this dream before, that you have this dream over and over again, and you know that it's really nothing that simple. You know that there's a whole underground system that you call 'dreams,' having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar - where you are now, where you've always been. — Alice Munro

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other. — Edith Wharton

I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band. — Daniel Rossen

I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much. — Daniel Rossen

I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else. — Daniel Rossen

Maybe if I point to my brain it will work ... — Chris Cheney

With time, he developed the instincts of a priest: evil existed; the task was to work productively within its confines. — Alan Furst

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink. — Mico Monsalve