Kaija Quotes

#1. But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Jane Fonda

#2. And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Larry David

#3. This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.

Alexander Hamilton

#4. Sonya, as a scientist, it's never just about the logistics of life. One must always be optimistic, or else you'll never discover or learn anything new. Though of course, you might also find that such a mentality should never be restricted to such an occupation as mine.

Lauren Lola

#5. These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized.

Morgan Freeman

#6. The music and the philosophy feed off of one another on a subconscious level, though I've never really integrated my academic teaching into songwriting. But what they have in common is that they're both ways to tap into the mysterious parts of our world.

Steve Weinstein

#7. God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Algernon Sidney

#8. I am like a decapitated pine. Pine trees do not regenerate their tops. They stay twisted, crippled.They grow in thickness, perhaps, and that is what I am doing.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. In the end, we'll all become stories.

Margaret Atwood

#10. For the love of the gods, Lorenzo. Just kill the man."

I grinned even as a struggled to pull my arm free from his jaws. "Yes, dear.

Ellis Leigh

#11. Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

Daniel Smith

#12. I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

Conway Twitty

#13. They'd performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatrical offerings.

Emily St. John Mandel

#14. and then you're (at times, it feels, aggressively) told that you're at fault and should take responsibility and action for This Here Problem? Holy . . . Like, I mean, holy shit, Bast.

Kaija Straumanis

#15. Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Kaija Saariaho

#16. Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

Kaija Saariaho

#17. Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

Kate Bush

#18. I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't mean I think everything needs to leave the house. If it helps me through my life and doesn't bore anybody in theirs.

Todd Snider