Marketa Quotes

#1. Marketa pressed her hand against her stinging cheek. She was too stunned to cry, for her mother had never struck her before. She looked at her twin sisters, whose faces blanched, and they clutched each other in fear.

Linda Lafferty

#2. Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.

Glen Hansard

#3. You are more powerful than you can think of.

Debasish Mridha

#4. I run fast. I run far. I run in the hopes that nothing will ever catch up.

Katie McGarry

#5. I've been really aware of how important it is to me to just stay in the moment and enjoy it while it lasts. Because that's all you've got. If it ends, I'll move on to doing something else. If it lasts, great.

Marketa Irglova

#6. Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy.

Marketa Irglova

#7. (I used to hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my office door, but people interpreted this as "His door is closed, but he wants me to know he's in there. I'll knock.") Be

Paul J. Silvia

#8. Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

Marketa Irglova

#9. We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.

Ann Voskamp

#10. I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

Carolyn Murphy

#11. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#12. I'm proud of my hands; they look like my grandma's.

Serinda Swan

#13. Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people ... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

Marketa Irglova

#14. Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Thomas Fuller

#15. At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

Aberjhani

#16. The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Marketa Irglova

#17. When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

Marketa Irglova

#18. The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

Marketa Irglova

#19. The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

Edith Wharton

#20. The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew.

Thomm Quackenbush

#21. Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

Marshall Goldsmith

#22. If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.

Marketa Irglova

#23. When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.

Nhat Hanh

#24. I trust the flow of life.

Marketa Irglova

#25. With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Marketa Irglova

#26. Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.

Marketa Irglova

#27. Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Marketa Irglova

#28. I didn't know zombies could eat demons," admitted Paul.
"Oh, dey can't, really," said the Baron. "But you know, dey just keep trying anyway.

Jon Skovron

#29. She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free ...

Kate Morton

#30. Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up.

Marketa Irglova