Shankars Strings Quotes & Sayings

(he was a great believer in the healing powers of cheerfulness, if not of open mirth). Yet he had some faults, and one was a habit of dosing himself, generally from a spirit of enquiry, as in his period of inhaling large quantities of the nitrous oxide and of the vapour of hemp, to say nothing of tobacco, bhang in all its charming varieties in India, betel in Java and the neighbouring islands, qat in the Red Sea, and hallucinating cacti in South America, but sometimes for relief from distress, as when he became addicted to opium in one form or another; and now he was busily poisoning himself with coca-leaves, whose virtue he had learnt in Peru. — Patrick O'Brian

The original concept of rock and roll ... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and i'ts all this energy. — Peter Frampton

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing. — Justin Chadwick

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things. — Nicholas Sparks

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance. — Victor Borge

How many people ask you to come share their life? — Janet Fitch

In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind. — Walt Whitman