My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
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I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
And though I've lived to be an old man with my very own share of happiness for all the mess I made,… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life is like this Ferris wheel. Even when everything seems wrong, the sky is black, it's starting to rain, and some… — Michele Young-Stone Copy Share Image
“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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“An old man spoke to his grandson. "My child," he said. "Inside everyone there is a battle between two wolves. One is… — Christine Woodward Copy Share Image
“Like too many men, Trahearne and I didn't know how to deal with a woman like [the girl], caught as we were… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
“One Trump tenant disturbed by the de facto segregation was the Oklahoman Woodrow Wilson Guthrie—or Woody, as the folksinger was known. He… — Michael Kranish Copy Share Image
“I sit by the bed with an aching back, and start to cry as I pick up the notebook. I am tired… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona… — John Blacking Copy Share Image
“If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else and makes love to him for… — Irmgard Keun Copy Share Image
“The mice were furious." [...] "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I could hear an old man in the stall next to ours sucking a hustler’s cock; I thought of animals gathering at… — Tom Cardamone Copy Share Image
“Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
“He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Spring has again returned. The Earth is like a child that knows many poems. Many, O so many. For the hardship of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, in our heightened state, we pick up weak psychic energy around us, such as the angst of a teenager, for instance,… — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
“Then, breathing slow, and almost deliberately, stops. But for a moment the old man doesn’t realize he is dead. He can feel… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“They camped that night under a full moon and a sky crowded with stars that made Froi forget that there was an… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie.… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
“I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man,… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man.… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
“You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me “a legend”.(…) A legend is an old man with a cane… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Whenever I do something in life, I take it as far as I can take it. A lot of people think the… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
“Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Then, at the woman’s flicker of disappointment, he realized he was turning down a date with a pretty lady because he wanted… — Sara King Copy Share Image
“There was a photograph of Trout. He was an old man with a full black beard. He looked like a frightened, aging… — Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr Copy Share Image
The old man sold beer after hours on weekends. And that was something that he probably did to top up his earnings… — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image