Linda Quotes

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning.

I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.

We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

Love will abide, take things in stride.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

Story is what's most important.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

Tip the world over and everything loose falls into L.A.

It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.

My greatest inspiration had come from messages delivered through spirit sources, who seemed to guide my every step.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.

When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

Sometimes all you need is a little push to change your life in a BIG way.

I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don’t run just because we get sacked a few times.