J.R. Ward Quotes
It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.
I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.
As a producer, I like to bring in unexpected voices, unexpected musicians, like Watt and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.
The production process has a great way of bringing songs to light and that's a big part of it.
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.
When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.
Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.
From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.
I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.
I usually keep a bottle of whiskey. I'm not a big drinker, but I feel like it's important to have.
I can't live without scissors. I don't have any tattoos, but I thought if I ever got a tattoo, it should probably be scissors.
I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.
I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it through is necessary.
I have learned that I am enough... I have learned that no one else can LOVE ME - FOR ME.
TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning
I have learned that trust comes and goes and love comes before hate. Elise age 10.
We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry
