Shkoder Albania Quotes

#1. I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.

Gordon Lightfoot

#2. I meant to do my work today
But a brown bird sang in the apple tree
And a butterfly flitted across the field
And all the leaves were calling me.

Richard Le Gallienne

#3. I noticed my mother's face assume an expression she reserved for unspeakable horror. I had seen this look only twice before: once when she was caught in the path of a charging, rabid pig and then again when I told her I wanted a peach-colored velveteen blazer with matching slacks.

David Sedaris

#4. It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

Robin Trower

#5. IT'S NOT AS IF IT DOES ANYTHING FOR THE FLAVOUR. WHY DOES ANYONE TAKE A PERFECTLY GOOD DRINK AND THEN PUT IN A CHERRY ON A POLE?

Terry Pratchett

#6. It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Gary Oldman

#7. Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.

Richard Bentall

#8. Shevek, meeting her eyes, knew that he had committed an unforgivable fault in forgetting her and, ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. Men who do their work intelligently and earnestly have an aversion to those who want to make literature out of what they do, to make it important.

Marcel Proust

#10. A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

Walter Scott

#11. The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#12. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

Dava Sobel

#13. There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.

Walter Mosley

#14. Most things I go through I have to write about.

Keri Hilson

#15. By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]

Horace