Smiresandassociates Quotes & Sayings

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching. — Gary Burton

Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed. — Lionel Shriver

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller. — Tucker Carlson

You must have something in order to give it up. — M. Scott Peck

That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive about what I want to do in a show - because there are so many possibilities! There are so many great songs out there. — Alison Elliott

To him, restaurants were the ultimate expression of ungodly waste. For of all the luxuries that your money could buy, a restaurant left you the least to show for it. A fur coat could at least be worn in winter to fend off the cold, and a silver spoon could be melted down and sold to a jeweler. But a porterhouse steak? You chopped it, chewed it, swallowed it, wiped your lips and dropped your napkin on your plate. That was that. And asparagus? My father would sooner have carried a twenty-dollar bill to his grave than spend it on some glamorous weed coated in cheese. — Amor Towles

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures. — Morton Feldman

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. — William Butler Yeats

If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all. — Meg Rosoff

I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything. — Josh Hutcherson

I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. — Tyrese Gibson

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life? — Frank Pittman