Appalachian Folk Sayings

#1. I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Renee Fleming

#2. I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Carlisle Floyd

#3. Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.

Ramakrishna

#4. You are as beautiful as sky, as soft as moon, as shiny as stars and as angry as Sun.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. My mind took up a chant. Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me. Make me hurt, cry, bleed. Make my outside match my inside. Help me get it out, because I can't cry on my own

Amber Lin

#6. a deep smothering emptiness

Bell Hooks

#7. I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

Henry Ian Cusick

#8. Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side.

Erin Davie

#9. I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

Jaime Winstone

#10. Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Laughter is the best way To make somebody's heart beat

Robert Holden

#12. Follow the way of virtue. Follow the way joyfully through this world and on beyond.

Gautama Buddha

#13. It was early on when I was really focused and obsessed with doing The Tonight Show and Letterman and stuff like that. Then, I quickly realized that those things don't make or break a career.

Gary Gulman

#14. You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Martial

#15. Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Ayn Rand

#16. If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all conflicts in the world would vanish. Mellow smiles would rule the earth.

Ryu Murakami