#after

After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.' ↗

— James Iha

#away #coming #could #did #feel

Lead me home to your waters where comfort waits for me Take my soul, forgiving Father And cradle the hearts of those who grieve Wipe away the anger and hatred from the world we once knew May your peace of heart Be a blanket May our lives begin anew. Hearts that have been broken Lives that have been torn What can never be forgotten Is now a legacy we face this morn The madness of a moment Can never be erased And the devastation that remains Is shadowed with disgrace Please hold your children as we pray for tomorrow We are all as one As we struggle in a world encased in sorrow ↗

— Carol Clemente O'Malley

#anger

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#god #heaven #judgement #talent #life

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#continued #happen #happened #moment #nothing

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#death #life #love #lovers #mortality

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. ↗

— George Ade

#cold #dawn #gray #laughter #mirth

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#also #beginnings #came #eight #father

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. ↗

— Peter Agre

#always #bible #christmas #dad #dinner

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. ↗

— Alan Alda

#fair #keep #others #them #then

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun