Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each year, unless I find a cure.
But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.
I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.
I always loved James Brown, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke.
Nobody has ever disproved Sam Carey's work.
'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.
My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.