Ahmir Trotter Quotes

#1. I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

Julian Barnes

#2. People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

Hal Sparks

#3. I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

Minnie Driver

#4. It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.

Meghan Daum

#5. History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Howard Nemerov

#6. That is the purpose of meditation practice: to become more present and aware of every aspect of our life.

Lodro Rinzler

#7. The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#8. Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

Charlotte Gray

#9. What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

Jodi Picoult