Manninen Kirsti Quotes

#1. Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Jo Stafford

#2. Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established

Gautama Buddha

#3. There's no way to be a Christian at home by yourself.

Sara Miles

#4. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

Mary Oliver

#5. Romantic love has always interested me: the way it ebbs and flows like a living thing, or how it is revealed in secret smiles or anguished conversations. Perhaps I've always found it captivating because it was the starkest reminder of how alone I was.

Martin Pistorius

#6. Charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#7. You didn't like it? Well, my next one will be even better!

Ed Wood

#8. We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

Louise Doughty