Understandable Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them. — John Ortberg

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me. — Nic Pizzolatto

In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself. — Martin Buber

She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better. — Jethro Tull

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world. — Harry Vardon

Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon. — Jack Johnson

Quiet. But when no one was looking I would slip into Ella's room and steal a book and take it back of the barn and try to read it. Usually I could not decipher enough words to make the story have meaning. I burned to learn to read novels and I tortured my mother into telling me the meaning of every strange word I saw, not because the word itself had any value, but because it was the gateway to a forbidden and enchanting land. One — Richard Wright

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record. — Serj Tankian

Empty Chambers make foolish maides. — George Herbert

The whole of our scholarship - the whole of our thought - we question everything except the centrality of sexuality. — A.S. Byatt

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. — Vera Brittain

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour. — James Surowiecki

If you walk into any bookstore, you can look at the newsstands and see which magazines are nationally-distributed, and you recognize certain names. Same with television. With the blogsphere, however, you actually have to dig, and know how to use multiple tools to figure out whom you should be speaking to. — Timothy Ferriss