Hicksville Quotes

#1. Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.

Billy Joel

#2. A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which meant it as now an hour-and-a-half commute via the 7:06 Hicksville to Penn Station every morning. (Dark City Lights)

Jonathan Santlofer

#3. He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

Augustine Of Hippo

#4. Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

Mick Napier

#5. I can sit down and vomit on the
keys
but it's my
vomit.
it's better than sitting in a room
with 3 or 4 people and
their pianos.
this is my piano
and it is better than theirs.

Charles Bukowski

#6. From now on I'll connect the dots my own way.

Bill Watterson

#7. I just hope His Majesty, may minstrels compose epics at the sound of his glorious name, will do as you say and give this land to its people.

Rae Carson

#8. On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.

John Allen Fraser

#9. Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.

Publilius Syrus

#10. I started to think about how words and stories are time beings, too,

Ruth Ozeki

#11. I have done that', says my memory. I cannot have done that - says my pride and remains unshakeable. Finally - memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

Chuck Tanner

#13. The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for.

C.S. Lewis

#14. He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Ernest Renan

#15. The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

C.S. Lewis