Solmization Quotes & Sayings

Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you lose your grip on one of them and it falls and smashes to piece, and you shrug and say to yourself, what a pity. Then you reach for the cup that you use every day, one that you love and use so often that as you stretch out your hand it is already making the shape that fits its curve. You are certain that yesterday it was in its proper place, but now there is nothing. Just air. You have lost something that was so familiar, so much a part of your life that you were not even looking for it. Just expecting it to be there, as always. — Rosie Thomas

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. — Orison Swett Marden

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there. — Todd Burpo

In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees. — David Nicholls

I think of my business and investments as extension of my family. — Barbara Corcoran

When I masturbate I fantasize about having my own apartment. I used to think about Cindy Crawford now I think about leaving a dish in the sink overnight. — Greg Giraldo

I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced. — Jacki Weaver

He wandered among the tanks for a long time, and often came back with her to the laboratory and the aquaria, submitting his physicist's arrogance to those small strange lives, to the existence of beings to whom present is eternal, beings that do not explain themselves and need not ever justify their ways to man. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You can't lead me down that road. — Taylor Swift

The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Yesterday lasts forever.
Tomorrow comes never.
Until you — Penelope Douglas

The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good. — Frank Herbert

If myth is translated into literal fact, then myth is a lie. But if you read it as a reflection of the world inside you, then it's true. Myth is the penultimate truth. — Joseph Campbell

Sometimes you have to leave yourself to the mercy of someone else. Not because you are weak or less powerful, but just because nature wants it that way.
The earth revolves around the sun; even its ego can't change that as it's the very basis of its survival. I had left myself to the mercy of God, believing He would help keep me going and still continue to be around. — Shikha Kaul