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How I have yearned for the sound of your sweet voice,” Tyrion sighed to her. “How I have yearned to have that eunuch’s tongue pulled out with hot pincers,” Cersei replied. George R. R. Martin
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing. Justin Townes Earle
Thomas Carlyle quote: "Thought is the parent of the deed."
Thought is the parent of the deed. Thomas Carlyle
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. Martha Graham
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. George Takei
We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. Marian Wright Edelman
Erich Fromm quote: "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature..."
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature. Daniel Kahneman
As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. Jean-Marie Le Pen
Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips. Georgette Heyer
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before. Vladimir Nabokov
Colin Hay quote: "I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point."
I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point. Colin Hay
It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style. Gordon Getty
Oswald Chambers quote: "There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes."
There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. Oswald Chambers
Martin Luther quote: "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the..."
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. Martin Luther