I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
I always work on the songs all together up until the very end. I never mix a song and think, "Okay, now that one's done. " I think that's why it feels like songs are really connected, and I like that. They're all worked on kind of like a little family.
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
But. . . watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
When I'm unable to see a mistake I made right away. Maybe this is my Taurus mentality, but sometimes I don't see it and I don't see it and then, before you know it, I finally see it, and I'm like, "How the hell did I not see that? It was right in front of me all this time. " And I have to look at the wake I left behind, the disappointment. That makes me feel weak.
I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.
I don’t like the idea of dragging you into something that could get messy fast. If you need one more reason, I love you. This is uncharted territory for me, but I need to know that at the end of the night, I have you to come home to.
I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.
I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.
We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.
I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
Life is like a box of terrible analogies.
Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.
Citizens. . . should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.
