I've never had an empty house. Ever.
MEREDITH MONK Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and...
MEREDITH MONK Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and...
MEREDITH MONK When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.
MEREDITH MONK I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I did...
MEREDITH MONK As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're ...
MEREDITH MONK I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actua...
MEREDITH MONK That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going d...
MEREDITH MONK It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to...
MEREDITH MONK When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to...
MEREDITH MONK In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It...
MEREDITH MONK Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art...
MEREDITH MONK I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go ...
MARIA MONK Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging...
MARIA MONK I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I s...
MARIA MONK She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful....
MARIA MONK I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the s...
MARIA MONK The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
MARIA MONK I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a...
SOPHIE MONK The majority of profit has nothing to do with our benifit, hence the battle is lost enduring the war...
MONK FROST After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to ...
SOPHIE MONK Ignorance is not bliss, but a blindfold.
MONK FROST My parents taught me well,they spanked me every once in awhile.
MONK FROST We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but...
MARIA MONK All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by...
MARIA MONK He'd already put a shirt on each leg and had stacked every shoe I owned into a precarious pyramid. T...
DEVON MONK He's a perfectionist. He's laid back, but when you do something wrong he'll tell you about it.
MARCUS MONK His largest attribute is the abilility to defend family.
MONK FROST All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
THELONIOUS MONK He tried to put it out, but when he realized it was bigger than he was he called the fire department...
ANTHONY MONK My biggest fear was Antoine was trapped in his room. Those video games can be hypnotic.
ANTHONY MONK On my way back from the store I see all these fire trucks and I think, ?This is unbelievable.? I was...
ANTHONY MONK Opinions are for fools who guess.
MONK FROST It's the Coliseum - we know that. We just try to treat it like another game. If you want to be the b...
MARCUS MONK Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.
THELONIOUS MONK Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy
THELONIOUS MONK The largest tragedy is our apathy.
MONK FROST As human, we are part of the herd which the wealthy languish.
MONK FROST As human, we are part of the herd which the wealthy langiuish.
MONK FROST To assume is to know less than nothing.
MONK FROST Life is the battle fought against stife.
MONK FROST It's so surreal it's hysterical.
SOPHIE MONK Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wishe...
MARIA MONK After about a month, the aches and pains are gone, but then the homesickness starts to set in. You'v...
GARY MONK "To care about another's opinion of myself, I would first need to care about it!
MONK FROST Crude as oil is our responsibility.
MONK FROST Pride belongs to the lion's share.
MONK FROST Tonight we dream, about the past, and a better tomorrow.
MONK FROST Common sense is for our lack of wisdom.
MONK FROST Life is the battle fought against strife.
MONK FROST Truth is simple as the fact we ignore.
MONK FROST Wisdom is for the few whom realize the difference.
MONK FROST Frail the human's race.
MONK FROST Stare into a mirror through a single pane of glass Adore the reflection for the image will soon pass
MONK FROST This year's county meet will be one of the most competitive in many years. The dedication of so many...
CATHI MONK This was an absolutely elite field (of athletes). To have that many athletes finish in the top three...
CATHI MONK People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I&...
SOPHIE MONK We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the...
MARIA MONK I ended up donating $100.
DAVID MONK My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister.
DAVID MONK You need to ask the right questions, you need to make sure and get references from them, for local p...
DAVID MONK depending on the size of the storm, 3 weeks to 3 months, sometimes we've stayed as long as 6 months.
DAVID MONK A lot of people have a romantic ideal of what it's going to be like. They don't expect that the weat...
GARY MONK There is an economic case for it (a bio-diesel plant), but only if the Government mandates bio-fuels...
GARY MONK We weren't just learning anything new, we were rusty. But now we're just ready to get out there for ...
MARCUS MONK Teams won't know if we're throwing the ball or running, and it is going to be harder for them to pre...
MARCUS MONK Once we get on the same page we'll be able to do some big things. This offense gives an opportunity ...
MARCUS MONK It's different from last year, ... You had to improvise with Matt, but with these quarterbacks - thr...
MARCUS MONK Don't know about my knives, but my gun's made of pain.
DEVON MONK So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no a...
MARIA MONK Dad pressed against my mind. Please, Allison. Let me, just this once, hold my son.
I shouldn't...
DEVON MONK I'm so excited. This is the biggest thing I have ever done, there's no comparison.
SOPHIE MONK I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she...
DEVON MONK People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleas...
MEREDITH WHITNEY The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real ...
MEREDITH WHITNEY Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressive...
MEREDITH WHITNEY There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.
MEREDITH WHITNEY Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been...
MEREDITH WHITNEY At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
MEREDITH WHITNEY There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really carefu...
MEREDITH WHITNEY You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports...
MEREDITH WHITNEY You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the busi...
MEREDITH WHITNEY We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and now,Like a ripe fie...
GEORGE MEREDITH The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying ...
MEREDITH SALENGER More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s w...
MEREDITH BAXTER Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon onesel...
GEORGE MEREDITH "Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent.
GEORGE MEREDITH Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.
OWEN MEREDITH Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that s...
MEREDITH EATON The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
GEORGE MEREDITH De fiecare dată când respiri sau când păşeşti, o
faci pentru a împinge înainte vieţile...
MEREDITH WILD De fiecare dată când respiri sau când păşeşti, o faci pentru a împinge înainte vieţile amâ...
MEREDITH WILD Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
GEORGE MEREDITH Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
GEORGE MEREDITH That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
GEORGE MEREDITH We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
OWEN MEREDITH Speech is the small change of silence.
GEORGE MEREDITH The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
GEORGE MEREDITH Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
GEORGE MEREDITH Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
GEORGE MEREDITH Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
GEORGE MEREDITH She poured a little social sewage into his ears.
GEORGE MEREDITH Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills alon...
GEORGE MEREDITH Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
GEORGE MEREDITH There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! ...
GEORGE MEREDITH If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.
MEREDITH WEST Kissing don't last: cookery do!
GEORGE MEREDITH Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all yo...
MEREDITH GREY Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...
GEORGE MEREDITH Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet esca...
GEORGE MEREDITH Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
OWEN MEREDITH Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them
OWEN MEREDITH I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal governm...
JAMES MEREDITH When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.
MEREDITH OSTROM I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
GEORGE MEREDITH The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
GEORGE MEREDITH Bring the army of the faithful through.
GEORGE MEREDITH The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom tha...
GEORGE MEREDITH There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.
GEORGE MEREDITH Kissing don't last: cookery do!
GEORGE MEREDITH The well of true wit is truth itself.
GEORGE MEREDITH A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what w...
GEORGE MEREDITH I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
GEORGE MEREDITH Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
GEORGE MEREDITH A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
GEORGE MEREDITH Don't just count your years, make your years count.
GEORGE MEREDITH Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
JAMES MEREDITH When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur.
DON MEREDITH I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness
MEREDITH DURAN Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
GEORGE MEREDITH You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but...
MEREDITH WHITNEY My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt...
JAMES MEREDITH I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
BURGESS MEREDITH Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never co...
GEORGE MEREDITH Caricature is rough truth.
GEORGE MEREDITH You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don'...
MEREDITH WILLSON The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
MEREDITH WILLSON Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
MEREDITH WILLSON But O the truth, the truth. The
many eyes
That look on it! The diverse things
they see.
GEORGE MEREDITH Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
OWEN MEREDITH Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just ...
MEREDITH GREY My family fulfills me.
MEREDITH VIEIRA I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't mis...
DON MEREDITH The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're...
MEREDITH BROOKS Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid ...
MEREDITH WOOD I did enjoy it, it was good. I've eaten here before.
MICHELLE MEREDITH Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-cl...
JAMES MEREDITH I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist d...
MEREDITH EATON The capaciously strong in soul among women will ultimately detect an infinite grossness in the deman...
GEORGE MEREDITH He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often ...
MEREDITH DURAN just got back from a beautiful eve of winter solstice snowshoeing. my heart was lost and enlivened b...
GEORGE MEREDITH They better close it down. It's unsafe. It's unfit. My God, 12 men lost their lives.
ANN MEREDITH I call this injustice. I will tell you right here now, I am going to sue.
ANN MEREDITH Each time he documented, you could tell it was getting worse.
ANN MEREDITH This is one of the reasons I wrote the book -- to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
MEREDITH MARAN I trust only you and the dark always to look at me so honestly.
MEREDITH DURAN At that moment, I hated dating more than doing my laundry
MEREDITH SCHORR There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH We think it will help stimulate revenue through the reduction of churn and extend the life-cycle of ...
DAVID MEREDITH You gotta understand -- the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the Unite...
JAMES MEREDITH Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.
MEREDITH BROOKS Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.
GEORGE MEREDITH And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.
GEORGE MEREDITH The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom tha...
GEORGE MEREDITH Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her f...
GEORGE MEREDITH 'Tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.
GEORGE MEREDITH It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him
GEORGE MEREDITH On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. / Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.
GEORGE MEREDITH Not till the fire is dying in the grate, / Look we for any kinship with the stars.
GEORGE MEREDITH Under yonder beech-tree single on the greensward, / Couched with her arms behind her golden head, / ...
GEORGE MEREDITH The point of 'The View' is to give your view on various issues. There's nobody who has no biases on ...
MEREDITH VIEIRA I noticed in the hallway a black janitor and I wondered why he was standing there. And he had a mop ...
JAMES MEREDITH This is stunning, an absolute betrayal. I'm reliving everything bad about Kenneth's death. It's hear...
KAREN MEREDITH I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Withou...
MEREDITH GREY Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being gratef...
MEREDITH GREY Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek...
MEREDITH GREY Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn ...
MEREDITH GREY At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you i...
MEREDITH GREY Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heal...
MEREDITH GREY The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy...
OWEN MEREDITH A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Ne...
MEREDITH GREY At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like...
MEREDITH GREY Most of us think we know ourselves pretty well. Our hopes, dreams, desires.. We cling tightly to thi...
MEREDITH GREY Once again this year, Sam has been one of the most consistent and dependable scores in the district....
DOUG MEREDITH Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions w...
MEREDITH DURAN It's great exercise, it's relaxing. If you want to get competitive, there are opportunities for that...
MEREDITH SAMPSON She called me on the cell phone to tell me what she's found.
MEREDITH SAMPSON The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he w...
OWEN MEREDITH Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet! When woman joins herself to man
OWEN MEREDITH Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fe...
OWEN MEREDITH Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God
OWEN MEREDITH One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.
OWEN MEREDITH Thought alone is eternal
OWEN MEREDITH There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.
OWEN MEREDITH Speaker - please see note from Alan Middleton below. This sounds like a great idea. What do you thin...
MEREDITH NORRIS It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong,
DON MEREDITH There is an internal genocide going on,
DON MEREDITH Believing in yourself, is an endless destination. Believing you have failed, is the end of your jour...
SARAH MEREDITH