H.P. Oliver Quotes

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says."Yes, Planet Bach, " I respond.He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.

As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud.

I think of the quietness of Julian’s voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don’t come.

Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. "It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic." - The Demon Trapper's Daughter

Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places.

Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.

Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.

You know that person on your left shoulder who tells you that you can't do it or that you're not good enough? Tell that person to GET LOST!

Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere("Between Four Yews")

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

Everyone you trust, everyone you think can count on, will eventually disappoint you. When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear…

Take down the walls.

I'm dead, but I can't stop living.

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

She knew what he had in mind.He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday.There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first hear it.

People never believe anything - except scandal - when they first heart it.

It's much easier to tame a wild tiger with your bare hands than to convince someone who believes in something, no matter wrong or right.

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine' -the Wisdom of our Creed is revealed through these words - 'We work in the Dark, to serve the Light. We are Assassins.' --Machiavelli

Life went on, despite all the dying.

My mother used to say about gossipers " Don't worry about people talking about you, whilst they're talking about you they are leaving some other poor innocent soul alone

Jack's doctors have told him he is crazy… but, the truth is, it's the Voices who are crazy, not him.

Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.

He looked down at my fingers wrapped around his coat then lifted his eyes to mine. 'My tiny huntress, do you know what you've done to me?

I fell back into my favorite chair and tucked my hands between my knees to stop them from shaking. I sucked in a deep breath, held it, and marveled at my own transformation into a ridiculous ninny.

I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.

…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

You are letting this feeling get cold, I cant blame you, you must know you are free to go... Don't you ever look back... If you wonder why it is because I wont be there.

As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.-DONNE

I did not get to where I am backstabbing people. If you want what I have, you must earn it like I did.

If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up

I suppose that's the secret. If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up.

...no matter how much success you may experience in life, your eventual story - no offence intended - will be one of failure. Your bodily organs will fail, and you'll die.

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.