Willcutt Music Quotes & Sayings

When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation?
Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute? — Dan Simmons

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty. — Kevin Harrington

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school. — Brian De Palma

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. — Desmond Tutu

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely. — Jan Koum

Be like the sun. Not only does it shine through the day but also makes its presence felt at night by allowing the moon to reflect its light. — Chirag Tulsiani

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form. — Merce Cunningham

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously. — Takeshi Kitano

Grace does not share ice cream. She does, however, talk about herself in the third person. — Alice Clayton

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails — Charles Spurgeon

There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands. — Frederick Lenz

It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go. — Sylvia Robinson

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation — Arthur Godfrey