Decemberists Songs Quotes

#1. Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.

Erika M. Szabo

#2. Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Gertrude Stein

#3. No, normalcy is taken for granted until it's gone.

Maryanne O'Hara

#4. The love you give away is the love you keep.

B. J. Palmer

#5. She was the most loyal, forgiving, headstrong, passionate woman he'd ever met in his life, and he was madly in love with her

Jennifer Probst

#6. An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

Debbie Ford

#7. The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.

Theodora Goss

#8. Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

Sadie Jones

#10. When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people

Colin Meloy

#11. Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

Ram Dass

#12. If you judge by appearances in this place,' said Mme de Chartres, 'you will often be deceived, because what appears to be the case hardly ever is.

Madame De La Fayette

#13. Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#14. It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

Naveen Andrews

#15. Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

Joel Meyerowitz