Peavine Quotes

#1. Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

Tim Cahill

#2. Avoid fancy words ... If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have bad time Reminder 14.

William Strunk Jr.

#3. Twice I flushed grouse, always a terrifying experience: an instantaneous explosion from the undergrowth at your feet, like balled socks fired from a gun, followed by drifting feathers and a lingering residue of fussy, bitching noise. I

Bill Bryson

#4. Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Rosa Luxemburg

#5. When a problem is disturbing you, don't ask, "What should I do about it?" Ask, "What part of me is being disturbed by this?

Michael Singer

#6. Everyone has had, at a given moment, an extraordinary experience which will be for him, because of the memory of it he preserves, the crucial obstacle to his inner metamorphosis.

Emil Cioran

#7. I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.

Khloe Kardashian

#8. I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.

Marianne Williamson

#9. Decades of indoctrination, manipulation, censorship and KGB excursions haven't altered this fact: People want a piece of their own little Something-or-Other, and, if they don't get it, have a tendency to initiate counterrevolution.

Frank Zappa

#10. Abortion is the easy way out. It's hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

Tony Abbott

#11. If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Elizabeth I

#12. You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Frank Robinson

#13. People always laugh, because they don't expect words like shit to come one of someone so petite, someone with a voice so quiet, so sweet.

Stephanie Perkins

#14. I like it that you have no clue how to kiss but still, the two kisses I've shared with you are the best I've ever had. By far.

Kristen Ashley