Soothe The Savage Breast Quotes

#1. A song says something to us that we can't hear in any other way. There is a kind of magic to it. Music does not simply soothe the savage breast, it reaches to our better nature, wouldn't we all agree?

Ivan Doig

#2. The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish - and it will.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast

William Congreve

#4. Nonsense. Your grandmother was headstrong and brilliant and took the ton by storm. I'm told she spent her first season breaking a score of hearts and boldly inserting her opinion where it wasn't desired. Frankly you remind me entirely of her, and she would be proud of you tonight as I am.

Sarah MacLean

#5. You're a vampire, Richie. And I've got a gun the size of Nebraska. What's the worst that could happen?

Mike Carey

#6. Surrender had played out for good with me.

Jesse Jackson

#7. I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course.

Jeaniene Frost

#8. Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

#9. When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

Masiela Lusha

#10. The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Bill Murray

#11. I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.

Stephen Curry

#12. Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction.

Havelock Ellis

#13. I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

Lanford Wilson

#14. They're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her.

Charles Dickens

#15. O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#16. Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Congreve

#17. You ... can ride a bike, can't you?"
"Sure I can," I said, getting onto one of the squeaky things. "At least I used to be able to. Haven't done it in years, but it's like riding a bike, right?"
"Technically, yes.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. These were the names she whispered in the dark.
These were the pieces she brought back into place.
These were the wolves she rode to war.

Ryan Graudin

#19. Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

Jamais Cascio