Samarra Vineyard Quotes

#1. Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they've felt as I've felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another's thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.

Moryah DeMott

#2. I could really use someone else's smile today.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.

Warren Farrell

#4. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Ulysses S. Grant

#5. I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.

Dan Fante

#6. So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

Herbie Hancock

#7. Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood ...

Richard Peck

#8. If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.

Alan Dean Foster

#9. When climbing the ladder of success, haters, not gravity, try to pull you down.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own, When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.

Jim Carrey

#11. When you got your hand in the lion's mouth, don't do nothin' til you get it out.

Big Bill Broonzy

#12. The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

Georg C. Lichtenberg