Joanna Newsom Quotes

And a thimble's worth of milky moonCan touch hearts larger than a thimble.

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Good
  • Music
  • I Can

• I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Cooking
  • Used

• At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Design

• I love Madrid.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Madrid

• We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Man

• Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Canada
  • Walls

• The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Think
  • Questions

• The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men...

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Free
  • Alone

• Democracy is the best revenge.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Democracy
  • Revenge

• For all Mr. Gorbachev's policies, is he prepared to see the break-up of the Soviet empire? I do not think so for one moment.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Up

• It amazes me how a person to whom literature means anything can take it up as an object of study.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Up
  • Study
  • Literature

• I've sold my soul to the devil.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Soul
  • Devil

• Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Distractions
  • Hapiness

• The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element of corruption in men that renders them unworthy of God. Knowledge of God without knowledge of man's wretchedness begets pride, and knowledge of man's wretchedness without knowledge of God begets despair, but knowledge of Jesus Christ furnishes man knowledge of both simultaneously.

  

  William Lane Craig
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Pride

• The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Different
  • Aesthetic

• Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Time
  • May
  • Hope

• Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies evolutionary family trees. In this it has utterly failed.

  

  Norman Macbeth
  • Practice
  • Failed
  • Darwinism

• And a thimble's worth of milky moonCan touch hearts larger than a thimble.

  

  Joanna Newsom