Laurie R. King Quotes

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

Laurie R. King

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• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • You
  • Unique
  • Voice

• A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Place
  • Everyday
  • Where

• I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Girl

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Politics
  • Gay
  • Late

• I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Action
  • Development
  • Cards

• Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• Did you figure out the second head fake? This talk's not for you. It's for my kids.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Fake

• Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;Dream of battled fields no more,Days of danger, nights of waking.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dream
  • Rest
  • Sleep

• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Joy
  • Envy

• Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

  

  Jean Piaget

• What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Respect
  • Fake

• Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• But to-day, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream; it wishes to enjoy physically. The heights and the depths of truth are indifferent to it; it is content to satisfy its bodily appetites. Mankind to-day is brutish - it is not the stuff of which artists are made.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Dream

• The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Forgiving
  • Eggs
  • Debtors

• Fortune have somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.

  

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Woman
  • Fortune
  • Wooed

• The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Taken

• Our weaknesses are an opportunity for God to show his strength.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Opportunity
  • Shows
  • Weakness

• Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

  

  Laurie R. King