Joe Hill Quotes
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Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.
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Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.
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Love requires Context.
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The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.
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I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.
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Don't believe everything you hear today
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All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.
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The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.
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A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.
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Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
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He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.
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Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.
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We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.
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I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.
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You'll have pie in the sky when you die.
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The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
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You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.
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I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.
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Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
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She just knew that even when you had nothing, you still had love.
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If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
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I am; I was. I want to be.
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The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.
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Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.
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Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.
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I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.
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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
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Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.
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The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.
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Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.
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