Seyfferth Quotes & Sayings

I like structuring verses, choruses, but sometimes the verses might be a tango and the choruses might be death metal. — Daron Malakian

Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest. — W. H. Auden

I couldn't use Nest because it doesn't operate with high-end HVAC systems. — Peter Barris

I see only adaptations - not revolutions. — Gordon Getty

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head. — Veronica Roth

Like the three points in a triangle, knowing your value, maintaining your value, and getting compensated for your value are essential in building professional stability and longevity. If the compensation or the opportunity sounds too good to be true - it probably is. Sooner or later, reality prevails over rhetoric. — Joe Jordan

I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art. — Lea Seydoux

While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.' — Claire Cameron

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have ... ," I wouldn't be here today. — Debbi Fields

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Socrates

The job she had to do, as she saw it, was to remember everything - and by "remember" she meant experience it in her mind, one more time - then store it away forever. This day's experience set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside. — Alice Munro

And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him.
And they began this day with hope. — John Steinbeck

The purpose of the voice of condemnation is to push you away from His presence -- that which is the very source of your victory. The purpose of the voice of conviction is to press you into the face of Christ." ~Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place. — Lori Hatcher

I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out. — Bradford Cox

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood. — Debi Mazar