The Great Rock And Roll Swindle Quotes & Sayings

Shut up, lumpen-head," Billy had said, setting the stage for our future amicable relationship.
I remembered that very well too. That had been a first too. Nobody had called me a lumpen-head before that. Tavi had had to explain what it meant, and then I had punched Billy in the stomach. People had to help Pradyun separate us and one of the ladies had exclaimed, "But she looked like such a sweet, little girl too!"
"She's not a girl," Billy had said. "She's an ugly lumpen-head, and her parents found her under a toadstool."
Billy had been a sweet, little boy himself. Still was. Hadn't changed a bit over the years. — Sonal Panse

Call it Mooristan,' Aurora told me. 'This seaside, this hill, with the fort on top. Water-gardens and hanging gardens, watchtowers and towers of silence too. Place where worlds collide, flow in and out of one another, and washofy away. Place where an air-man can drowno in water, or else grow gills; where a water-creature can get drunk, but also chokeofy, on air. — Salman Rushdie

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation. — Saint Francis De Sales

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy. — Duane Chapman

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more. — Max Von Sydow

Death knows his way to us and he'll take it no matter what we do or we don't, but it's life that we should pave the roads that take us there. — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us
to take plenty and keep our mouths shut. — Tamora Pierce

What is healing, but a shift in perspectives? — Mark Doty

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can. — Gregory Maguire