80 quotes found
“All men are born equally free.”
“You only fail when you give up.”
“One cannot live on anger, my son.”
“There is no sin in the realm of taste.”
“All language is an aspiration to music.”
“I believe in it because it is impossible.”
“Look at all the life in this," she said. "Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear another hundred fruits and every fruit could bear another hundred trees. And so on to infinity."I ...”
“Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical!”
“I dont want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like Ill be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be cr...”
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then yo...”
“Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.”
“So when I feel most lost I choose to remember those things that help me survive. I choose love.”
“It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend th...”
“I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on st...”
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at...”
“Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse artistic and commercial value, but it's just a fact that some kid who rips...”
“Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I do...”
“Sometimes before your luck can be good,someone else's has to be bad”
“Surround yourself with people that love you and accept you exactly for who and what you are. The only explanation you owe is the one you give to yourself, for not living your authentic life with th...”
“Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.”
“This was something they could not take from us - the freedom to imagine, to create new worlds beyond this one.”
“I sit in my treeI sing like the birdsMy beak is my penMy songs are my poems.”
“Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)”
“We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.”
“People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain.”
