Maria Beasley Quotes

#1. My clarinet sounded like an apoplectic yak. For the brief days I blew the trumpet, a hostile-sounding pig snorted along in jerky fits and starts with the rest of the irritated band.

Karen Marie Moning

#2. Imagine if Uluru is absolute serenity and the ocean is homicidically mental, then my mother has been driving up and down the Pacific Highway for as long as I can remember.

Alyssa Brugman

#3. [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

Brene Brown

#4. I was taught that pain is bad.

Keith Miller

#5. I like to dream about Portugal, and it's less easy when you are there.

Maria De Medeiros

#6. I suppose that without a God, NASA is my anti-nihilism.

Marina Keegan

#7. Growing up in London was the best.

Rita Ora

#8. Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

Henry Mayhew

#9. My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Isabella Rossellini

#10. The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that a band like this should exist, and people were impatiently waiting for them to show up.

Rob Sheffield

#11. Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Samuel Richardson

#12. Do you know there are at least seven ways to view Niagara Falls ... one of the natural wonders of the world?

Joan Lingard

#13. All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Ben Affleck

#14. Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Shannon Hale

#15. The strength comes only from your mind. Fingertips. Wrist. Thighs. Brain. These are your weapons. The sword is merely a beautiful accessory.

Kelly Gardiner