“Never cry over anything that can't cry over you”
John Marsden (1950) author
Source: The Other Side of Dawn
Radio From Hell (April 18, 2007)
“Never cry over anything that can't cry over you”
John Marsden (1950) author
Source: The Other Side of Dawn
“You’re not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Don McLean (1945) American Singer and songwriter
As quoted in "What is Don McLean's song 'American Pie' all about?" at The Straight Dope (15 May 1993) http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/908/what-is-don-mcleans-song-american-pie-all-about <br class="br">Context: As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie" I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. … Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.
“I am crying over the elusive nature of love.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation
Source: Prozac Nation
“Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.”
Tom Robbins (1932) American writer
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Context: Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years. According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the Kali Yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening.
Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth. The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending – and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever. Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.
Otherwise, ours is an old, old story with an interesting new wrinkle. Throughout most of our history, nothing – not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons – has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed. The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically. Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
Alice Borchardt (1939–2007) American fiction writer
Devoted
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
He said, "You've got a point." <br class="br"> At a rally in Londonberry, New Hampshire (16 October 2008) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/16/cnr.04.html <br class="br">2008