Glenn > Glenn's Quotes

“The last song recorded for Abbey Road was Lennon’s BECAUSE - a three-part harmony in C sharp minor inspired by hearing Yoko Ono play the Adagio sostenuto of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 (Moonlight).”
― Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties

“the kind of arrogance that exists in a tacit assumption between two men that they are the only people capable of appreciating how stupid everybody else is and how wise and profound their own thoughts are.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I suppose one of the reasons we’re all able to continue to exist for our allotted span in this green and blue vale of tears is that there is always, however remote it might seem, the possibility of change.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Pierre now saw the absence of suffering and the satisfaction of our basic needs, followed up by freedom to choose an occupation,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“he knew that men who want something are only too ready to arrange all the evidence to suit their wishful thinking and willingly exclude anything that contradicts it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“One horror of motherhood lies in the moments when she can see both the exquisiteness of her child and his utter inconsequence to others.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“There was a time, not so long ago, when refrigerators could not dream and vacuum cleaners could not weep.”
― Glenn Dixon, The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances