Inessential Listening Quotes

#1. It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

John Lennon

#2. It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The

Alastair Reynolds

#3. Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

Eugene Manlove Rhodes

#4. It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

Julian Schnabel

#6. Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

William Jennings Bryan

#7. Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

Hillary Clinton

#8. Ogbenyealu is a common name for girls and you know what it means? 'Not to Be Married to a Poor Man.' To stamp that on a child at birth is capitalism at its best." Richard

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#9. I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.

Toni Morrison

#10. Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by.

Mother Angelica

#11. Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss

Richard Cecil

#12. Mick's album was called She's the Boss, which said it all. I've never listened to the entire thing all the way through. Who has? It's like Mein Kampf. Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it.

Keith Richards