Blue Like Jazz Quotes

#1. I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back.
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Donald Miller

#2. To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in or be accepted.

Marshall Allman

#3. The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. I seldom feel trapped by my world. Setting up rules and restrictions is part of the process. It gives your world shape. I always look at these things like haiku: you have to work within certain parameters, but within them, you're completely free.

Richard Kadrey

#5. I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

Edgar Winter

#6. I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

Donald Miller

#7. There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#8. You know, you're very strong" Nicola said.
"Thank you."
"That's no compliment. It's your weakness. If you weren't so strong you wouldn't have to take it and so you wouldn't.

Andrew Kaufman

#9. In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.

Richie Gerber

#10. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

Donald Miller

#11. I was strictly a college-ruled man myself, having no talent for illustration and a microscopic scrawl that made wide-ruled seem roomy. The blank pages were usually the most popular

Rachel Cohn

#12. T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a pink moon

Saira Viola

#13. Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?

Al Siebert

#14. You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

Bill Wyman

#15. People of vision must not be lazy, they must not be afraid of work, no matter how degrading the work might seem

Sunday Adelaja

#16. I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

Lenny Kravitz

#17. Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?

Johann Lamont

#18. I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.

Andrew Solomon

#19. I will respect the corelings, Arlen thought, but I will never stop fighting them.

Peter V. Brett

#20. The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

R.L. LaFevers

#21. Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Donald Miller