Being Married To A Musician Quotes

1. "We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late."
Author: Edward R. Murrow

2. "My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming - one other person at least."
Author: Jane Austen

3. "Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion. His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend."
Author: Jane Austen

4. "History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made."
Author: Janet Flanner

5. "All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."
Author: Jean De La Bruyere

6. "But this was the thought of a depressive. An aspiring depressive, at the time. That was the odd thing about Leonard's disease, the almost pleasurable way it began. At first his dark moods were closer to melancholy than to despair. There was something enjoyable about wandering around the city alone, feeling forlorn. There was even a sense of superiority, of being right, in not liking the things other kids liked."
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

7. "I didn't look at Thanet. I couldn't because he would see the hurt on my face."He loves you," Thanet said. "He's hurting and it's not just the Quinn thing. It's being away from you and wondering if you're hurting, too. Or if you're having too much fun to hurt. What he really needed was to laugh, though. So we laughed…until he cried."That undid me. I looked at Thanet with so many questions on my lips."
Author: Laura Anderson Kurk

8. "There were upsides to the whole mess. While Douglas was holding me hostage, I'd met a girl—I mean, screw dating websites and house parties; apparently all the really eligible ladies are being held in cages these days. I would have liked to see Brid fill out a dating questionnaire, though. What would she put? "Hi, my name is Bridin Blackthorn. I'm next in line to rule the local werewolf pack. I like long walks on the beach and destroying my enemies. I have four older brothers, so watch your step. We'll be forming a queue to the left for potential suitors."And, trust me, there would be a queue."
Author: Lish McBride

9. "The coolly logical part of her brain noted almost sardonically that Edilio had a superpower after all: being Edilio."
Author: Micheal Grant

10. "Jesus soon is coming,and Christmas too,Good reason for being happy, Helping people to do."
Author: Michelangelo Saez

11. "Annabeth," he said hesitantly, "in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace." Her expression turned guarded. "Reyna explained it to me. But, Percy, you belong at Camp Half-Blood. That other life—""I know," Percy said. "But while I was there, I saw so many demigods living without fear: kids going to college, couples getting married and raising families. There's nothing like that at Camp Half-Blood. I kept thinking about you and me…and maybe someday when this war with the giants is over…"It was hard to tell in the golden light, but he thought Annabeth was blushing. "Oh," she said…"I'm sorry," he said. "I just…I had to think of that to keep going. To give me hope. Forget I mentioned—""No!" she said. "Gods, Percy, that's so sweet."
Author: Rick Riordan

12. "To be a part of your biggest days - you know, your child being conceived or born, or you walking down the aisle - there's really nothing sweeter. That's the truth."
Author: Robin Thicke

13. "This lost, loose feeling that no consequence could be so harmful as the sense of staying where you were, or of being who you are."
Author: Sarah Dessen

14. "All the fans being here got my adrenaline going. I definitely got a burst of energy from them."
Author: Sean Elliott

15. "Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!"
Author: Toots Thielemans

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