Shirley Verrett Quotes

#1. I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

Bruce Springsteen

#2. It's always nice to be able to show your friends and family what it is that you do. I've had their support from the beginning and wouldn't be here without it, so yeah, I do whatever I can to be there with them when they go to see it.

Shawn Roberts

#3. I always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.

Carolina Herrera

#4. A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Khalil Gibran

#5. Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. Without trying, I seem to write about these poor boys who are absolutely mad for girls who are otherwise engaged in perilous endeavors.

Lauren DeStefano

#7. But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Lillian Hellman

#8. The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs ... When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.

Stanley Druckenmiller

#9. What people did with their genitals was their business.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

Zooey Deschanel

#12. We may not be alone, but I sure felt like we are.

Jen Minkman

#13. Eating was an essential, sensual and communal activity requiring nothing more than taste buds and an open mind.

Hannah Mary Rothschild