Melisande Name Quotes

#1. There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Zubin Mehta

#2. We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Anais Nin

#3. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Charles R. Swindoll

#4. Why did people shrink away from winter, he wondered, safe in their blankets, hiding by their fires?
If they knew how beautiful winter really was, they would walk out naked into the snow, walk and walk, until their frozen hearts split open with joy.

Lena Coakley

#5. And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Boris Pasternak

#6. Hearts have more room than you think

Lindsey Leavitt

#7. Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

Steven Pinker

#8. When failure is demonized, people will try to avoid it at all costs - even when it represents nothing more than a temporary setback.

Steven D. Levitt

#9. Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

Delia Sherman

#10. Love, as Mercer had heretofore understood it, involved huge gravitational fields of duty and disapproval bearing down on the parties involved, turning even small-talk into a ragged struggle for breath.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#11. We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

Michael Scheuer

#12. Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

Martin Fry