So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.
… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,
No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?
An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.
It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.
Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has…
… true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world …
If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.
… what you think is right isn’t the same as knowing what is right.
Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.
If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.
Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it’s something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.
… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.
Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.
Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.
When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….
Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.
I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.
Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.
Pops added,”you know, they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve.””And if you do, you never get the results you expected,” (Katherine) replied.
… an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.
While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.
Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of ‘Stagefright Sympathy Sickness’.
Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we’d be too busy en-joy-in’ life to start a war.
… how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.
If typos are God’s way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.
They lived off each other’s hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.
Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.
Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?
If we danced and shared music, we’d be too busy en-joy-in’ life to start a war.
Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking.
… a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.
If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.
In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.
… love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.
The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?
There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
I know, not everyone will like what I write, but writing is not about trying to please everybody.
It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.
I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author’s mind, a glimpse of their creative soul.
Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?
The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
There is much to discover that’s not on the back cover!
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!
One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.
There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life… the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?
… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.
A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you’re sorry.
It’s a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.
If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.
If that’s the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake,” Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, “I’m all for fighting tyranny and oppression.
I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.
Thought for the day: Twitter…140 character limit…must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers…
Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.
There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.
By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.
I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.
What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?
If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed.
Stay away from the underground lake I implore,The Siren will see you are heard of no more.
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.
He offered his love … she could not bother,She gives her love to the other! The other!
Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,Eternal Wisdom can never die …
The Scorpion?The Grasshopper?Which way will she go?
If Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care.
No more can this Angel teach her,Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake …
Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story?
Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed.
Music helps to forgetThis forsaken tomb,That is my abodeCellars downFar belowUnder the ground, …
Monsieur, you must be mad!Box Five can never be hadFor money, love or the world …
… the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.
You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
…they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
… the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
Isn’t it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?
(Marlowe’s) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a ‘place’ invented by men.
There’s nothing like a printed book; the weight, the woody scent, the feel, the look.
Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before …
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
… far be it from a French man to interfere with love.
There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation’s promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.
You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, ‘Well done.
Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter…with alliteration, no less!
#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.