Star Trek Filk Quotes & Sayings

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs. — Robin Trower

Things of today? Deeds which are harvest for Eternity! — Ebenezer Elliott

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. — Aimee Bender

No," he heard a voice on the wind say. "If I had told you, you wouldn't have seen the Pyramids. They're beautiful, aren't they? — Paulo Coelho

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use. — Neville Marriner

Emma's mid-twenties had brought a second adolescence even more self-absorbed and doom-laden than the first one. 'Why don't you just come home, sweetheart?' her mum had said on the phone last night, using her quavering, concerned voice, as if her daughter had been abducted. 'Your room's still here. There's jobs at Debenhams' - and for the first time she had been tempted.
Once, she thought she could conquer London. She had imagined a whirl of literary salons, political engagement, larky parties, bittersweet romances conducted on Thames embankments. She had intended to form a band, make short films, write novels, but two years on slim volume of verse was no fatter, and nothing really good had happened to her since she'd been baton-charged at Poll Tax Riots. — David Nicholls

Before you hate something you should try to understand it. — Martha Grimes

Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones. — Kevin Hearne

Jyn shrugged, unable to feign a senator's diction any longer. "Rebellions are built on hope." "There — Alexander Freed

Atticus:"Damn it, Jim, I'm a Druid not a Physicist! — Kevin Hearne

I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? An' they waggle their ass an' flop their gun aroun'. Ma", he said, "if it was the law they was workin' with, why we could take it. But it ain't the law. They're a-working away at our spirits. They're a-tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They're tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're working on our decency". — John Steinbeck

The hardest part of continuous improvement in organizations is changing the behavior of other people. — Jurgen Appelo

Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word. — Debbie Macomber

No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and ... to come out on top. — Jay Gould

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene. — Paul Gauguin

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount Jr.

For Brittanie

There will always be men
who have fishhooks for fingers.
There will always be women
with wet, sharp mouths.
It is okay to get caught up in them.

It is not okay to drown.

Don't you ever let another human
being tear you apart.
Remember that you have claws
and teeth, too.

Remember that you are better off
whole. — Trista Mateer