Shoegaze Quotes & Sayings

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs. — Tamaryn

The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence. — Yohan Blake

Silence is sorrow's best food. — James Russell Lowell

I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation. — Barack Obama

Your country is bigger than baseball. — Jerry Coleman

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail. — Edward M. Lerner

And besides, thought Yoshida, If it was all right for God to test man, why was it wrong for man to test God? — Haruki Murakami

My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do. — Keith Morris

Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world. — James Patterson

Business is war by other means. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, because those limitations allowed us to push ourselves as songwriters and gave us a strong sound that people could recognize as ours, like wearing a leather jacket every day. A uniform. They know it's you - and that's great - but my original intention wasn't to be a shoegaze band or to be derivative of one sound. — Tamaryn

Anastasia." He answers immediately, his voice warm and caressing. How is it that this man can make me melt over the phone?
"Christian, Jack has asked me to get his lunch."
"Lazy bastard," Christian gripes. — E.L. James

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved. — Aleksa Palladino

I found something for you." He ignored the pangs of hunger and lowered himself to one knee before her. Her eyes widened. He swung his hand around from behind his back and held out a lone orchid the same shade as the moon overhead. And once again, he wished he knew what to say, how to talk to her, how to be more sophisticated. Instead, he thrust it before her. She tentatively took it from him and lifted questioning eyes. "For your collection of specimens," he offered. Her fingers caressed the drooping petals. "I think it's a yellow lady's slipper." He didn't know nor did he care. He only knew that he wanted one of her rare smiles. For a long intense moment, he held his breath. Finally her lips curved into a smile. "Thank you." His pulse jolted forward and he swallowed hard. "You're welcome." What was happening to him? Why did he want to make her happy? When she lifted the flower to her nose and took a deep breath, her smile moved to her eyes . . . And to his heart. — Jody Hedlund

There are songs I really enjoy playing. I like playing "Say It" live because it's a long jam, kind of like shoegaze, so I do enjoy that. — Stephan Jenkins

I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets. — Matt Flynn

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit. — Sri Aurobindo

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously. — Ludwig Quidde