Valved Quotes

#1. Loafe with me on the grass - loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want - not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

Walt Whitman

#2. Most of us live our lives devoid of cinematic moments.

Nora Ephron

#3. When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.

Lois Greiman

#4. Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

Laurie Anderson

#5. Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

Jim Shepard

#6. When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to
peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find
such a blessed sense of rest!

Charles Dickens

#7. Entrepreneurs persevere until it pays off. One good day can make up for an entire month, and one good month can make up for an entire year. Don't give up. The isn't over 'till it's over!

Farshad Asl

#8. In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after.

Osamu Dazai

#9. We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp
since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. When you jump on a city bus or roam the streets off the major thoroughfares you'll quickly learn that we have as many differences as similarities. And therein lie the greatest opportunities for innovation - our different ways of viewing the world and coming up with solutions!

David Livermore

#11. I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Nigel Farage

#12. It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

Louisa May Alcott

#13. The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

Ron Brackin

#14. My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

Lincoln Steffens

#15. I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Elon Musk