Short Meaningful Song Quotes & Sayings

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied. — Jennifer Tipton

Enormous novels by co-eds.
Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter. — W. H. Auden

You have to have an awareness of where you're going, what the event is, what you're promoting, and who the audience is. That always informs the way you dress. — Gillian Jacobs

Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed. — Stephenie Meyer

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night. — Rumi

Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events that ultimately dries the soul and leaves the heart empty. — Gonzalo Munevar

Another human being, yet another I had never seen before. What did this one know? Was he happy? Was he cruel? Did he worry? The more I stared at his face, the less I understood him. This is not unusual, the same procedure happens whenever I examine a person either on photograph or in reality: in my first glimpses I always think I can read someone fairly quickly, that the snap judgements I make are surely accurate, but the more I observe the less I understand, the more I realize how difficult the art of judging a person is. — Edward Carey

[My] rheumatism has come in again"

Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!"

"Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I take the consequences. Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto."* — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

False hopes are more dangerous than fears. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There's something about the flower that grows through the rocks, the pavement; through logs and stone or brick walls ... all roses are beautiful; but the rose that emerges unexpectedly through the asphalt has a beauty of soul. The flower that reaches through the brokenness of the wall has a beauty of spirit. You stop to look and not only to look but to cherish! Somewhere along its journey, it decided that it would reach for what was unseen, keep going in the direction of something that wasn't felt, it decided that it would be. That it would become. And it did. And there is something irreplaceable about that. — C. JoyBell C.

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both. — Manoj Bhargava

Here's how you think about it: Together you constructed many things throughout your life. Then her body disappeared, but the constructions still remain. Human beings die: That's natural. But to accept her death is to lose all hope. — Michael Paterniti

Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything — Ryan Tedder

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united. — Henri Nouwen