Searchin Quotes & Sayings

I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read — Elizabeth Knox

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively ... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours ... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night. — Drew Barrymore

See how a sleepy child will put off the inevitable departure for bed. The little creature's eyes blink and stare, and it needs constant jogging to prevent his nodding off into the slumber which nature craves. His waking is a pain; he is quite worn out, and peevish, and stupid, and yet he implores a respite, and deprecates repose, and vows he is not sleepy, even to the moment when his mother takes him in her arms, and carries him, in a sweet slumber, to the nursery. So it is with us old children of earth and the great sleep of death, and nature our kind mother. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently. — A.S. Byatt

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation. — Angie Harmon

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally. — Dave Matthews

Well I walk right on up to your rebel roadside
The one that rambles on for a million miles
Yes I walk down this road searchin' for your love
And my soul too
When I find ya I ain't gonna let go. — Jimi Hendrix

Are you going to lock your shitbox?"
Adam said, "No point. Hooligans got in anyway."
The hooligan in question smiled thinly. — Maggie Stiefvater

Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. — Miranda Cosgrove

Slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails — Tom Waits

It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers. — Washington Irving

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground. — Matisyahu

running the lyrics over and over in my head: "I wanna take you for granted. Well I will. — K. Bromberg

I was pressed to the wall and held there by his body.
"Searchin'," he whispered, his different colored eyes burning into mine. "My whole life, searchin' for something, missing something, something I did not know. Until I found you. And my whole life is a long fuckin' life to be needing something I could not find. — Kristen Ashley

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone. — George Bernard Shaw

I wake up starving for success, and no matter how much I accomplish I go to sleep striving for improvement; I refuse to let my enemies outwork me. — Noel DeJesus

Life on the street is simple. You eat. You don't eat. You sleep. You don't sleep. You're alive. You're dead. It's that simple! - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

But the cleaving Tidewitch didn't care. His blackened eyes had latched on to Safi now. His bloodstained hands clawed up and he barreled toward her like a squall. — Susan Dennard

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' — Jerry Leiber

The world bein' so small ain't always a good thing for those of us who ain't searchin' for new and different stuff. — Dan Groat

As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding? — Elvis Costello

For me, if 'Maryland' became half of what 'Searchin' My Soul' became, as far as radio play goes, I would be thrilled. — Vonda Shepard

God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of. — Faye Dunaway