On harsh, frigid January days, when the winds are relentless and the snow piles up around us, I often think of our small feathered friends back on the Third Line. I wonder if the old feeder is still standing in the orchard and if anyone thinks to put...
No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our ...
Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable ...
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surf...
Bilbo Baggins: I did not come to steal from you, O Smaug the Unassessably Wealthy. I merely wanted to gaze upon your magnificence, to see if you really were as great as the old tales say. I did not believe them. Smaug: [strikes a pose] And do you, NO...
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.
A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.
I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.
Bette Davis lived long enough to hear the Kim Carnes song, 'Bette Davis Eyes'. The lyrics to that song were not very interesting. But the fact of the song was the proof of an acknowledgement that in the twentieth century we lived through an age of im...
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.
As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fres...
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
He who starts singing too high will never finish the song.
Every story has two sides and every song has twelve versions.
The nightingale will run out of songs before a woman runs out of conversation.
There may be obstacles, but money is not one," the Iranian said. "Good. Money is usually an obstacle if you don't have it.
