Shovelsfull Quotes & Sayings

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York ... three nights. — Elvis Costello

English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve. — Fred Allen

A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk. — Frederick Lenz

Unable to meet his steady gaze, I shifted my attention to the stream and cursed myself for being a terrible liar. Actually, allow me to clarify that: I'm great at lying to myself. I'm super crummy at lying to others. — Penny Reid

Dude," the boy said, leaning into the girl. "Was that pot laced with something? Because I think I'm seeing a legless guy crawling out of a fucking whale. — Jake Bible

If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer — Tommy Hilfiger

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little. — William Jennings Bryan

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side. — James Taylor

I've known straight and gay people all my life. I can't tell the difference ...
But I'd never marry a guy I didn't like. — Willie Nelson

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. — William Hazlitt

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. — Lowell Thomas

So many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Dreams give the strength to live life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others. — Marilyn Vos Savant