Woodies Goodies Quotes & Sayings

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him. — Bruce Coville

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world. — Michael Mandelbaum

She thought she'd hate it, this huge, faceless city far from home, but the opposite was true: she felt nothing but relief. The heedless sprawl of Denver, its chaotic snarl of subdivisions and freeways; the openness of the high plains and the indifferent mountains; the way people talked to each other, easily, without pretense, and the fact that nearly everyone was from somewhere else: exiles, like her. — Justin Cronin

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are. — Antony Sher

Dying is easy, beloved. It is living that is difficult. The secret is to live fully, to embrace every instant of existence, beautiful and ugly, blissful and painful. And remember to dance between the worlds, for that is your heritage as a child of the infinite Oneness. — Leonide Martin

Why not seize the pleasure at once?
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! — Jane Austen

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel. — Yngwie Malmsteen

Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is shared withthe other guys. It is a code of conduct that requires men to maintain masculine postures and attitudes (however they are defined) at all times and in all places. Masculinity includes the symbols, uniforms, chants, and plays that make this the boys' team rather than the girls' team. — Frank Pittman

We have two kids, my wife and myself. — Thelonious Monk

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment. — Marat Safin

Starting to think getting away doesn't have a lot to do with distance. — Oscar H. Bennett

When I would feel down ... I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day ... Poof! They would all disappear. — Kim Young-kwang