R.Chapman Quotes

Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories.McGough: Really? When?Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ...

I have a shocking memory - I remember everything.

Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them.

The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.

Mindfulness develops the ability to be a real friend to ourselves.

Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

We have nothing to fear from others because approval and acceptance lies within ourselves.from Chapter 4

The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

The living take a part of the dead with them, carrying them around in their minds, like a song that lingers after the music has been turned off.

If you think you've seen it all, put on your sunglasses, because you're about to be surprised.

What happens to you as an individual is you plus the world rather than you alone.

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train.

I would rather know than believe.

Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech.

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

And our tears are an expression of that which we cannot express. Tears are perfect prayer.

Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten.

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.

It is insufficient to understand all, and thus to forgive all. If we were to truly understand, we would know there is nothing to forgive.

When life stops you making progress, don't see it as a step backwards.Think of it as doing the Moonwalk.

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.

To see, all one has to do is look. To hear, all one has to do is listen.

Writers are not narcissists. They simply acknowledge that what they find interesting is not unique to them.

Which comes first: Good or Evil? Usually evil. Good counters.

Sit back and enjoy. And remember: Always be careful what you say around your kids.

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

The truth had been said but evil had been done.

I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.

The kernel of truth sank into the fertile soil of [her] imagination, possibilities for a happy resolution suggesting themselves in vague flashes of potential and promise...

The two stared together into a future that held as much pain as promise, as much sorrow as sunshine...

Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you.

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

When you take your place as the authority figure in your home, your child will feel more safe in the real world, not the screen world.

The knowing is easy. It's the doing that gives us trouble.

Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

Charlie Everman understood, in the very depth of his soul, that God's mercies were new each morning.

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.