Songistry Quotes & Sayings

He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner. — Alwyn Hamilton

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was reading - these wonderful parenthetical asides to the reader. — Neil Gaiman

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?' — Alexander Payne

Of course, the tricky thing about these little questions was that, once I started asking them, it was hard to stop. — Jenna Miscavige Hill

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one. — J. Michael Straczynski

The more dressed up you were to begin with, the worse you look after you've crawled out of a smashed hansom cab and fallen into a muddy brook. — C.S. Lewis

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have. — Buddy Rice

Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is cocksure, vague and self-contradictory. The first step towards philosophy consists in becoming aware of these defects, not in order to rest content with a lazy scepticism, but in order to substitute an amended kind of knowledge which shall be tentative, precise and self-consistent. — Bertrand Russell

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in. — Douglas Rushkoff

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden

linguist called Alla who advised us, among other things, to treat our more stupid students with sympathy, "as if they had cancer." While — Elif Batuman

I'm smiling. I'm supposed to be a Black Witch and I'm smiling like a little kid. — Sally Green