It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty.… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes;… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it.… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
As Ive progressed in my career, Ive come to appreciate -- and really value -- the other attributes that define a companys… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It… — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and… — Cuthbert Copy Share Image
As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type… — Benjamin Booker Copy Share Image
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit… — Burial Copy Share Image
I was ten,” I said. “Give me a little credit.” “To a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respect—but… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at… — Daphne Oram Copy Share Image
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
And when Jace was ten years old, Valentine killed him. Michael, I mean." "That sounds like something he would do," said Luke.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Plenty more of the Nays sound perfectly sincere, though. They may genuinely dislike [Bob] Dylan; they may even enjoy or admire him,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image