Quotes About Mysery

#1. The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn's day.

Anna Paszkiewicz

#2. [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Fanny Kemble

#3. We're creating little hedonists,' Frank used to say. 'Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They'll search everywhere for something that can measure up, and nothing will.

Maile Meloy

#4. The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

Steven Adler

#5. The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

#7. I don't come out of an oral tradition, I come out of silence.

Colm Toibin

#8. Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

Thomas Otway

#9. I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

Elvis Costello

#10. If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

Jackie Kennedy

#11. We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Abraham Maslow

#12. Anybody who thinks factory jobs were good jobs needs to go visit somebody on a line," she said. "Most people wouldn't survive in a factory. Mitt Romney would die in a week.

George Packer

#13. Money is just that: money. It's not family. It's not happiness. It's not love.

Sarah Price

#14. When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys.

George Stevens Jr.

#15. In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Seth Godin

#16. Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

Eugene Kennedy

#17. So, you think your coffee-addicted mother is amusing." She pushed at his shoulder. "I'll get even with you. I'll show your naked baby pictures to your girlfriend." ~ Chapter 9 The Truth and Nothing but Lies

Cheri Vause