Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
#quotes #jonathan-richman #guitar #music

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
#quotes #james-redfield #spiritual #happiness

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
#quotes #norbert-of-xanten

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. ~Mike Pence
#quotes #mike-pence

It had run as a column; I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. ~Robert Scheer
#quotes #robert-scheer #war

I am "too fiery," yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything. ~Margaret Fuller
#quotes #margaret-fuller #heart #wish

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else. ~Sarah Lacy
#quotes #sarah-lacy #economy #china

I love performing and having people hear my music more that anything. ~Britney Spears
#quotes #britney-spears #music

Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #conscience

Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
#quotes #anthony-burgess #language #translation #design #culture

One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
#quotes #shel-silverstein #sisters

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don't know what that audience are into and I don't particularly like that kind of music. ~Simon Cowell
#quotes #simon-cowell #snow-patrol #band #music

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
#quotes #david-antin #entertainment #language

All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention; of barbarian invention; is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition; then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity. ~Robert Green Ingersoll
#quotes #robert-green-ingersoll #books #religion

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #tea #medicine

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
#quotes #bernadette-devlin #politics #sacrifice

The support in Britain made a big difference. ~Louise Woodward
#quotes #louise-woodward #britain

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian Proverb
#proverbs #italian-proverbs

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
#quotes #antoni-tapies #wisdom

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
#quotes #j-r-ward #ego

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. ~Aaron Taylor Johnson
#quotes #aaron-taylor-johnson #work #artist

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
#quotes #martha-reeves

I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. ~Ray Toro
#quotes #ray-toro

Tiger father begets tiger son. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverb #parents