#d

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. ↗

— Tori Amos

#amount #anything #because #change #complain

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. ↗

— David Amram

#i #jazz #last #learned #like

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#fairy #fairy tale #fingers #god #life

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. ↗

— Tori Amos

#go #i #knew #me #mother

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. ↗

— Tori Amos

#bull #color #field #gloss #guys

I don't kid around. ↗

— Tori Amos

#i #kid

I don't really cook. There are caterers, and my husband cooks. ↗

— Tori Amos

#cooks #husband #i #really

I guess my husband is a muse as well. ↗

— Tori Amos

#husband #i #muse #well

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#dying #lips #sits #truth #upon