Hosannas From The Basements Quotes

#1. The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

Dov Davidoff

#2. How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lytton Strachey

#3. You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Branford Marsalis

#4. I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

James Balog

#5. A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier

Gustave Flaubert

#6. Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#7. In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the end I find there is something kind of moving about it: the fact that people continue to insist on choosing somebody to build a life with.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.

Matt Smith

#9. You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

Joe Thomas

#10. In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

Kendall Jenner

#11. What does Nietzsche say of fighting men? 'You must have as enemies only those whom you hate, but not those whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy, and then the enemy's success is your success also.

Ernst Junger

#12. Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Leonard Cohen