Ralston Valley Quotes

#1. Many of the songs were written as a way of paying tribute to specific people, but in the end the songs took on a life of their own and I didn't worry about accuracy or biographical truth, so it's not a problem.

Michael Gira

#2. It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Julie Taymor

#4. We thought it was drops
of dew and kissed
cold tears from the crossgrass.

Jonas Hallgrimsson

#5. I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

Joseph McCabe

#6. It is as if we were to start hacking a path through the Amazon forest. By the time we have proceeded a hundred yards, the undergrowth takes over again.

Edward Luce

#7. We have too much stuff inside and it swells us, breaks us.

Elena Ferrante

#8. Suffering belongs to no language.

Adelia Prado

#9. I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

Michael Scheuer

#10. We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.

Elisabeth Elliot

#11. I didn't care that we were out in public. I didn't care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.

Richelle Mead

#12. Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley.

Peter Menzel

#13. There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both.

Plato

#14. Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Elisabeth Harnois

#15. She could think of no other reason for this boy to continue to visit her if not to use her in some way.

Morgan Rhodes