Mary Allan Quotes

#1. Fear is what makes you come alive, the lure of the unknown - can I do this? - thats where the growth comes from, the pain. I dont remember the running effortlessly; I remember the hard times; adversity breathes transformation.

Scott Jurek

#2. Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Paul Verlaine

#3. Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

James Weldon Johnson

#4. Sometimes being who you are - whoever you are - is hard. Sometimes, you can have it all together and still drive yourself crazy.

Brenna Yovanoff

#5. I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project.

Mary J. Miller

#6. The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental part of our social life. Without tolerance there is no religious liberty, no freedom of conscience and no freedom of thought.

Thomas Klestil

#7. I knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win.

Jack Nicklaus

#8. As long as there are a few people there, I can lose myself, which is the ultimate goal. And that's happening more and more; the non-musical world is becoming less and less interesting to me.

Cass McCombs

#9. There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

Dorothea Dix

#10. Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Jamais Cascio

#11. I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

Jeremy Renner

#12. Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?

Karen Maezen Miller

#13. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.

Fiona Helmsley