Vashti Bunyan Quotes

#1. Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

Radhanath Swami

#2. Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Cyril Connolly

#3. If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

Vashti Bunyan

#4. The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.

Adam Hasner

#5. I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

Andie MacDowell

#6. All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

Vashti Bunyan

#7. Maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. The universe takes care of its birds.

R.J. Palacio

#8. You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

Vashti Bunyan

#9. I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.

Vashti Bunyan

#10. I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.

Vashti Bunyan

#11. I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when we were trying to decide running order that I realized how sad a lot of the songs could sound.

Vashti Bunyan

#12. I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

Vashti Bunyan

#13. I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Matthew Fox

#14. It's customary to stand when a lady enters and leaves the room, Mr. Snowden." Jacob cut his dark eyes to her. "If and when I'm in the presence of a lady, I'll be sure to do that.

A.E. Via

#15. Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.

Virginia Postrel

#16. You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

Bob Anderson

#17. Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

Michael Gartner

#18. [Kim Kardashian] is one of the hardest-working women I've been around ever.

Kris Humphries

#19. The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.

Mike Murdock

#20. Can't quite believe it after being so used to being musically invisible for so long. It makes me feel very warm to know that people who are the same age as I was when I wrote those songs understand them for what they were and find something in them.

Vashti Bunyan

#21. I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

Vashti Bunyan

#22. All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.

Michael Arndt

#23. I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.

Vashti Bunyan