Quotes & Sayings About Staying Inside The Lines

I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley. — Patty Loveless

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia

I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was made to contain us. — John Banville

The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion ... The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but irrational. — Louis T. Moore

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone. — Fiona Shaw

America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level. — Mark Steyn

And it is said that extraordinary rains generally dash down after great battles, whether it is that some divine power drenches and hallows the ground with purifying waters from Heaven, or that the blood and putrefying matter send up a moist and heavy vapour which condenses the air, this being easily moved and readily changed to the highest degree by the slightest cause. — Plutarch

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I don't do anything I'm not good at. — Brenna Yovanoff

Never before had he said such long strings of sentences in French before, like he did now. In the sheltering dark, his thrusts were slow, deep, sure, his hands digging bruises into her hips, the French rolling in thick purrs off his tongue; she had the impression it was sexual, whatever he said, the way the words caressed and encouraged her. — Lauren Gilley

You know what I hate? Indian givers ... no, I take that back. — Emo Philips

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.) — Candy Lightner

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time. — Riccardo Muti

Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death. — Debasish Mridha