Top 14 Sempervirens Club Quotes
#1. My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.
Marilyn Mosby
#2. I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.
Barack Obama
#3. Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.
Tommy Rettig
#4. Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
Ayelet Waldman
#5. What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
Keith Miller
#6. When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Ruth Brown
#7. Know the business, learn the business, own something.
Isaac Hayes
#8. All the best days start with a latte and a time trip.
P.K. Hrezo
#9. I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.
Alexander Payne
#10. If you're following God and haven't lost much of what you've been holding on to - follow a little closer.
Bob Goff
#11. The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
Lindi Ortega
#13. It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.
Noam Chomsky
#14. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over ... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
