Melancholy Play Quotes

#1. They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

Billy Joel

#2. Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs
don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.

Charity Shumway

#3. I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

Camille Paglia

#4. while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

Ralph Ellison

#5. I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.

Steve Martin

#6. The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.

Mason Cooley

#7. Where the rich lead,the poor will follow, or try to.

John Steinbeck

#8. I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

Audrey Niffenegger

#9. So imagination crowns the experience of my hands. And they learned their cunning from the wise hand of another, which, itself guided by imagination, led me safely in paths that I knew not, made darkness light before me, and made crooked ways straight.

Helen Keller

#10. The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.

T.F. Hodge

#11. It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Norah Jones

#12. The rules are what make us better.

Larry Moss

#13. We should respect all people.

Helen Keller