R.X. Bird Quotes

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

Sometimes opposites attract, or so they say, but Paloma and Rocío were like arroz and mangú: they didn’t really mix well.

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.