Eyries Quotes

#1. Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

Tom Waits

#2. So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Brent Scowcroft

#3. Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

Muqtada Al Sadr

#4. Those who lead us to our sacred selves walk not before us, but beside.

Heather K. O'Hara

#5. Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.

Govindappa Venkataswamy

#6. Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.

Hank Stuever

#8. During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

J.G. Ballard

#9. I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

Meat Loaf

#10. Guilt is always jealous

John Ray

#11. A wave of nausea came over me. And yet. Sometimes you need a stroke of genius and, lo and behold, genius comes and strokes you

Nicole Krauss

#12. Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

Herman Melville

#13. After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

Edna O'Brien

#14. I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.

Bill Nye

#15. Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.

Sandra Fluke

#16. Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles.
"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

Howard Staunton

#18. We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.

Mark Andrew Poe