Leya Quotes

#1. Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, for me, Leya Truelong, this was a day like no other. Today, Wren River was touched by the fantastic.

Desiccate by Bonnie Ferrante

Bonnie Ferrante

#2. That's the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

Ella Leya

#3. Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love - that was my summer of 1979.

Ella Leya

#4. My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Ella Leya

#5. The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

Ella Leya

#6. The gusty wind Khazri swept through Baku, scouring every crevice, leaving behind air so pristine that it sparkled in the ginger sun like my mama's favorite crystal vase.

Ella Leya

#7. They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Lorrie Moore

#8. Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. When I'm working, I always make time to get exercise into my schedule.

Daria Werbowy

#10. Life is too precious to be left to chance

Walter Moers

#11. It makes no difference to me what kind of bat I have. For instance, I often grab the first bat I come across when I go up to the plate. Muggsy McGraw uses a light stick and Jake Stenzel uses a heavy one, but I'm liable to take any one of the miscellaneous lot that falls in my way.

Joe Kelley

#12. My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

Pat Cadigan

#13. How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

Ella Leya

#14. Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Ella Leya

#15. Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.

Dilip Hiro

#16. Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.

Fulton J. Sheen

#17. Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

Ella Leya

#18. I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

Ella Leya

#19. Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin's "Ballade no. 1.

Ella Leya

#20. The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar's crooked nose.

Ella Leya

#21. How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#22. It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

William Butler Yeats

#23. Its best to start now, because there may not be a later...

Leya

#24. Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

Ella Leya

#25. For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

Dick Bennett

#26. Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.

Ella Leya

#27. If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

Mireille Enos

#28. Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat.

Ella Leya

#29. By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

Ella Leya

#30. Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

Ella Leya

#31. A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Ella Leya

#32. Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

Ella Leya

#33. There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.

George Herbert

#34. You can close the city gates, but you can't close the people's mouths.

Ella Leya

#35. The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Ella Leya