Vatersay Scotland Quotes & Sayings

They talked about record labels, about how the majority of labels didn't care anything about the music, they just wanted a pretty face they could saturate the media with. The people who were doing the good stuff weren't being signed. "Same with radio," Ruby said. "It has nothing to do with music. For the station, music is just the noise in between the ads." "No shit. It's even hard to tell the songs from the ads." "I know. It's like solid ads." "And nobody cares. Nobody cares that they're being spoon-fed shit. They just think, I like this shit because everybody else likes this shit. — Anne Fraiser

When I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment ... — John Geddes

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action. — Bill Gates

If there's something as good as [him] in my life, I'm going to pay for it. — Jodi Picoult

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion. — Albert Einstein

Well, I don't know about you, but I don't want to be one of those dried-up matrons you see at bridge parties, scowling at the younger generation. I want to be one of those marvelous old ladies covered in scarves who rock in their chairs with mysterious smiles, remembering the scandalous affairs of their youth! — Melanie Benjamin

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in. — Ali Smith

there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences. — C.J. Box

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. — Karl Kraus

We know fun. Like two weekends ago we stayed up all night watching a documentary marathon on the brain." She rolled her eyes toward Erin. "We're positively wild. — Jenny B. Jones

When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself. — Duane Elgin

they have all been taught, possessiveness about our cozy corners and favorite toys isn't limited to cats and dogs. How we wish it were. Wouldn't life be simpler? — Margaret Atwood

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance. — Taisen Deshimaru

Truth is not an opinion. It's a force like gravity. It's the most valuable substance known to man. — Augusten Burroughs

Sita waits anxiously, and the next person she sees is a wandering monk who begs her for alms. — Deepak Chopra