by the light of Gypsy fires, my sister and I came of age…

I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn…

— Carrie Coon

Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to…

— Stephen Boss

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's…

— Rufus Wainwright

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in…

— Gabrielle Roth

While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense…

— Pema Chodron

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

— Washington Irving

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

You can get swept away quickly - it's terrifying. When you're living a more luxurious life - being brought out to a fancy boat…

— Lola Young

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

— William Ellery Channing

“a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away,”

— Terry Brooks

For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the…

— Pope Pius XI

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

— Roseanne Barr

“Women want to be bitten and swept away by a sparkling, 100-year-old, handsome vampire.”

— Chrissy Peebles

“Being held by him, kissed and mastered, taken under and swept away, enthralled her in a way she—an independent woman if nothing else in…

— Tracy Sumner