Billy Joel Long Island Quotes

#1. Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader.

Edna O'Brien

#2. Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Michael Bennet

#3. My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.

Faith Hill

#4. Coelho is, of course, entitled to his dumb opinion, just as I am entitled to think Coelho's work is a nauseous broth of egomania and snake-oil mysticism with slightly less intellect, empathy and verbal dexterity than the week-old camembert I threw out yesterday.

Stuart Kelly

#5. I'm sure it's innate, it's just biology, for a man to want a woman who can give him children.

Liane Moriarty

#6. We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you.

Azar Nafisi

#7. The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing.

Edwin Arthur Burtt

#8. You,
quiet and alone in your kitchen, cigaretteless.
Me, left tapping on your rain-streaked window,

wanting you to know that everything is going
to get better, and really hoping that it does.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#9. I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

Fefe Dobson