Miriam Quotes

I look at the past and I see myself.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.

Travel. You need to know you're a citizen of the world.

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.

A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

I believe I can sing anything.

I must say, I find everything interesting.

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both of you are not wearing pants.

I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.

There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.

[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.

I was just shitty, shitty, shitty with money and I finally, when I really started making money, I had to get somebody to sit down with me and learn how to manage my money.

But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?

Real life is like that - it does not follow a neat plan. sometimes you have to get things very messily wrong so you can see how to get them right.

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

We loved each other. We fought for each other. When worlds collapsed we were buried in the rubble together and when we were dug out of the rubble and rescued we all celebrated together.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself.

Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.

It’s voyeuristic the way you searchfor answers in these cries for help, and how you see Death’s fingersbut always think they’re paintbrushes.

I felt happier yesterday. I do not feel happy today – I feelabandoned and godless and brokenin a church built for the damnedwith artificial light through stained glassand warped wooden doors.

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

Life is a consequence of our moral choices.

When I wake from my nightmaresI’m more afraid of the breath in my lungs than whatever might be chasing me.

I want her sinful arms wrapped around me, bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame.

One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey.

You have constellationsgrowing under your skin.starlight in the blood spilledwhen they stole your feathers

In the darkness and the snow, the street is emptyand it is just the night, the ice and me.