Marisa Silver Quotes

#1. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.

Marisa Silver

#2. Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?

Marisa Silver

#3. I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two songs I just continued to explore it.

Neil Young

#4. weakness is not a transformation; again it is a deception.

Osho

#5. the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children would have to call her three or four times before they could get her attention.

Marisa Silver

#6. Tell me how you are."
"I'm fine, Mother."
"No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.

Marisa Silver

#7. It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Karl Kraus

#8. I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

Billy Eckstine

#9. Islamophobia has become so mainstream in this country that Americans have been trained to expect violence against Muslims - not excuse it, but expect it. And that's happened because you have an Islamophobia industry in this country devoted to making Americans think there's an enemy within.

Reza Aslan

#10. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

Marisa Silver

#11. I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Pete Seeger

#12. But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Marisa Silver

#13. A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again.

Marisa Silver

#14. It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Seth Godin

#15. There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Roy Jenkins

#16. Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something with it.

Mary Morrissey

#17. Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

Marisa Silver

#18. People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

Steve Toltz

#19. I would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere. You do. Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage please pass the same message along.

Graham Moore

#20. The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

Karl Pilkington

#21. Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Ernest Hemingway,