Advertisements
Yr Quotes
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Friendship Quotes
Love Quotes
Life Quotes
Funny Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else (Yr Quotes)
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently (Yr Quotes)
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to (Yr Quotes)
Revolt against a tyrant is legitimate; it can succeed. Revolt against human nature is doomed to failure (Yr Quotes)
Pyramid building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better (Yr Quotes)
Two pyramids, two masses for the dead, are twice as good as one; but not so two railways from London to York (Yr Quotes)
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented (Yr Quotes)
Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre (Yr Quotes)
But you know, it isn't designed. Love just shows up and you go, oh, wow, this is going to be a hayride and a half (Yr Quotes)
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder (Yr Quotes)
Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air, common to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of love, have made them proper and peculiar (Yr Quotes)
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves (Yr Quotes)
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face (Yr Quotes)
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America (Yr Quotes)
I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me (Yr Quotes)
And soon their hushing dances languished to a stand, like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon, all on their drooping stems they sink unfanned (Yr Quotes)
If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds (Yr Quotes)
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later (Yr Quotes)
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread (Yr Quotes)
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it? David Byrne: I would get something to eat (Yr Quotes)
Not poppy, nor mandrake, nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, which thou owest yesterday (Yr Quotes)
He explained to me that he wanted a simple boy meets girl story with lyrics. This I felt was quite beyond my capabilities. I did not know any boys who met girls (Yr Quotes)
Although tyranny... may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people (Yr Quotes)
We don’t know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives (Yr Quotes)
A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day (Yr Quotes)
I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don’t actually know a lot of the lyrics (Yr Quotes)
I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs (Yr Quotes)
Writing a song doesn’t heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it’s still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage (Yr Quotes)
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands (Yr Quotes)
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love (Yr Quotes)