Baluchitherium Quotes

#1. It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

Eddie Van Halen

#2. A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Oscar Wilde

#3. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.

Charles Dickens

#4. We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.

Kristin Davis

#5. Did dreams, he wondered, when they arrived, make a sound? The smallest kind, like the noise of an embryo being conceived, or a snowflake touching down?

Anthony Doerr

#6. A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

Joan Rivers

#7. My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong journey, and that with every day and every song and every gig you learn something new.

Katie Noonan

#8. There I was, waiting, afraid I'd never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

Elizabeth Berg

#9. Geese were orderly beings, with principles and systems, whose existence denied all superiority of individual over individual of the same species (176).

Alejo Carpentier

#10. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Kieron Gillen

#11. I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.

Dick Cheney

#12. I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.

Bobby Seale

#13. I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.

Eve Ensler

#14. Human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

Tennessee Williams

#15. Sometimes, for the soul to thrive, the heart needs to be broken, son.

Elif Shafak

#16. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge's second term I'll eat my spare tyre, rim and all.

Raymond Chandler