Ezra Furman Quotes

We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.

Ezra Furman

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• I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Person
  • Emotions
  • Optimistic

• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Hope
  • Student
  • Anchor

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• If something about the human body disgusts you, the fault lies with the manufacturer.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Lies

• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Time
  • Desert

• I really hate my hair when it's not braided because it's so big when it dries. When it's wet, it looks cool, but when it dries, it gets all in my mouth during a match, and I hate it.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • Hate
  • Cool
  • Hair

• I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

  

  Max Apple

• Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.

  

  Future
  • Family
  • Help
  • Health

• In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Power
  • Basketball

• When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

  

  Jason Molina

• Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

  

  Caroline Knapp

• I was a sad kid.

  

  Post Malone
  • Sad

• I need the lightness of children's lit.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Children
  • Lit

• The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

  

  David Bailey
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Reading

• In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Kids
  • Hood

• Bad people are intriguing!

  

  Jorge Garcia
  • People
  • Bad

• Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Up
  • God
  • Heart

• Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Different
  • Joy

• A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Soul

• We music fans go to shows for transcendence; it's like being called to prayer.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Prayer
  • Transcendence
  • Music Fan