Selon Moi Quotes & Sayings

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical. — Carrie Brownstein

Because it's not fair that you should have to love me broken, especially when I can never make you whole. — Jay McLean

[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer. — J.M. Coetzee

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)] — William Hazlitt

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out. — Stephen King

They expected certain things of her, and forgave certain things from her, because she was foreign. Once, sitting with them in a bar, she heard Curt talking to Brad, and Curt said "blowhard." She was struck by the word, by the irredeemable Americanness of it. Blowhard. It was a word that would never occur to her. To understand this was to realize that Curt and his friends would, on some level, never be fully knowable to her. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Make a simple roadmap for each one, consisting of three elements: 1) your dreams for that area, expressed as goals - specific, vivid, and with a timeline; 2) a simple plan to start (and when I say simple think: "find Germans"); and 3) one simple daily discipline that you will commit to doing each and every day from now on. — Jeff Olson

When it comes to the Supreme Court, the American people have only two times when they have any input into how our Constitution is interpreted and who will have the privilege to do so.First, we elect a president who has the power to nominate justices to the Supreme Court.Second, the people, acting through their representatives in the Senate, have their say on whether the president's nominee should in fact be confirmed. — Mike DeWine

It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs? — Howard Zinn

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. — Smedley Butler

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head. — Matt Roper

Agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions; — Joseph Conrad

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much. — Cinda Williams Chima