Quotes
Authors
Lois Crisler
"Like a community sing, a howl is a happy occasion. Wolves love to howl. When it is started, they instantly seek contact with one another, troop together, fur to fur. Some wolves will run from any distance, panting and bright-eyed, to join in, uttering, as they near, fervent little wows, jaws wide, hardly able to wait to sing." --
Lois Crisler
#Running Quotes
#Distance Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
“I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.”
“Just too much fast thinking all the time. I think of so many things all at once, it gets exhausting. You start seeing all of these connections around you . . . Everything is connected, composed, coordinated, choreographed. If you start paying attention to these connections, it can drive you insane. And that's why making work is so good, because that's when I'm not thinking, just making.”
“My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.”
“Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
“Through the triumphs there has come a greater confidence and through the challenges has come a greater clarity of purpose.”
“When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.”
“That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.”
“The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.”