Eliasz Kanarek Quotes

#1. This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Thomas Moore

#2. Of course, you can't force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

Alan Watts

#3. Don't go wasting all them bright tomorrows you ain't even seen by hanging on to what happened yesterday. Let go, child. Just breathe out and let go.

Beth Hoffman

#4. He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

Bernie Mac

#6. Forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.

Julian Barnes

#7. It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying.

Anne Lamott

#8. Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Laurence Sterne

#9. Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

Muddy Waters

#11. Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

Peggy Fleming

#12. My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Anna Kamienska

#13. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

#14. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Marcus Aurelius

#15. You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

Orson Welles