Laura Marling Quotes

There's huge amounts of nonsense that goes with everything surrounding music and art. All the things you have to do promote yourself - there's huge amounts of nonsense. ~ Laura Marling

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight. ~ Laura Marling

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young, ~ Laura Marling

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love ~ Laura Marling

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you. ~ Laura Marling

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. ~ Laura Marling

I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life ... You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean? ~ Laura Marling

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. ~ Laura Marling

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself ... throug h songwriting or other mediums ... I get a bit jittery. ~ Laura Marling

I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often. ~ Laura Marling

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on. ~ Laura Marling

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same. ~ Laura Marling

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head. ~ Laura Marling

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning. ~ Laura Marling

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you. ~ Laura Marling

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. ~ Laura Marling

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting ~ Laura Marling

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life? ~ Laura Marling

I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying. ~ Laura Marling

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money. ~ Laura Marling

A friend is a friend forever
And a good one will never leave, never ~ Laura Marling

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren't, it doesn't work. It doesn't last. I'm drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now. ~ Laura Marling

These are just ghosts that broke my heart before I met you. ~ Laura Marling

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. ~ Laura Marling

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am. ~ Laura Marling

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics. ~ Laura Marling

People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don't do that. ~ Laura Marling

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard. ~ Laura Marling

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games. ~ Laura Marling

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion. ~ Laura Marling

It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me. ~ Laura Marling

I can't give up that quick
My life is a candle and a wick
You can put it out, but you can't break it down
In the end we are waiting to be lit ~ Laura Marling

I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent. ~ Laura Marling

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. ~ Laura Marling

I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone ~ Laura Marling

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them. ~ Laura Marling

But if i sit here and weep
I'll be blown over by the slightest of breeze ~ Laura Marling

There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in ~ Laura Marling

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom. ~ Imogen Poots

I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life. ~ Laura Marling

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing. ~ Lianne La Havas

I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that. ~ Laura Marling

I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them. ~ Laura Marling

Take me somewhere I can grow
Give me something let me go
Tell me something I don't know ~ Laura Marling

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with. ~ Laura Marling

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that. ~ Laura Linney

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change. ~ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

The thought almost sends me running back for my bed, but I know it's only a slower death that awaits me there. I have to make a choice. I have to trust myself. ~ Laura Sebastian

The first shot causes warm rain to fall on Diana's arms from the sky. The second plants a mirrored jewel in the left temporal lobe of her brain ... a place she could have named on a quiz but which now seems to be the place where the future is imagined, the place where what would have been is. ~ Laura Kasischke

Your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever. ~ Laura Kasischke

She was a lover and a lewd cohabitator, a liar and a cherished friend, an aunt and a kindly grandmother, a champion of the fallen, and a late-in-coming fighter for reason over fear. Even in those final hours, quite and rocking, arriving and departing, she knew who she was. ~ Laura Moriarty

How does the story really go?
Does she ever cross your mind?
Does she ever steal your nights?
Is she still a part of you?
Do you ever wish she were still by your side?
And what would you do?
If she walked up here tomorrow
And told you that she loved you?
Would you drop it all and run to her?
Would you tell her you love her too?
Or would you simply send her home?
And tell her you've moved on?
Tell me, Buddy, what would you do? ~ Laura Miller

I glance down at the hand touching my chest. I follow it back to its owner. A soldier in his late twenties stares back. He's not the king, and these are not the king's men. Which can only mean …
I got fucking abducted.
Again. ~ Laura Thalassa

But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention. ~ Laura Marney

In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into life, as the monster takes his revenge on the father who gave him life but withheld recognition. ~ Laura Mullen

I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry. ~ Laura Schlessinger

Let me get this straight." He struggled to form the words. "You're telling me all the conspiracy nuts are right? The Freemasons, the Illuminati, Area 51- all that shit's real? ~ Laura Oliva

If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do. ~ Laura Wasser

And I want you to know," Max said kindly to him, "I don't hold you in any way responsible."
Lysander frowned. "For what?"
"For sending me an assistant who wanted to take over New York with the help of a virgin-raping,mundane-eating demon."
Lysander stiffened. "I am not 'in any way responsible' for that!"
"You did authorize the assignment," I reminded him.
"Well, I - I - " Lysander cleared his throat. "The decision was made at headquarters. All I did was sign
the standard paperwork. ~ Laura Resnick

But she was in love, and love isn't about making sense. ~ Laura Joplin

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me. ~ Laura Benanti

We figure he is the people's horse, and we propose to train him in the open. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

I'm not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the person's face from the hat and be like "Do you see that!" It's about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well. ~ Laura Owens

The trouble is, she was born at the wrong time. Too late for the ballroom love of the films she grew up with and too early to swallow all the flower-child stuff. The world has a way of making her feel too young and too old at once, both impossibly naive and impossibly cynical. ~ Laura Elizabeth Woollett

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Never choose half of anything just to be safe when you have a chance to have something whole and perfect. ~ Laura Florand

The pub door swings open when a man enters. A window of moonlit sky and sea illuminates the darkened pub, and a surge of cold ocean air charges its way inside. It's as if Cuchulainn's raging soul had passed through the doorway. ~ Laura Treacy Bentley

Thank goodness for best friends. For true friends, the ones who love you no matter what. ~ Laura McNeill

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

Ironing was an act of annihilation in which wrinkles would die and give way to order: something she required more than anything. ~ Laura Esquivel

The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Then ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people. ~ Laura Marano

There are no rules to creativity. ~ Laura Jaworski

But the future bores me.
I imagine following it like a leaf into traffic.
I imagine eating it like a heart made of oatmeal. ~ Laura Kasischke

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh. ~ Laura Kreitzer

The free software community should be supported more widely. I'm totally in solidarity with what they do. ~ Laura Poitras

I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it. ~ Laura Hillenbrand

I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling. ~ Brit Marling

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that. ~ Laura Wilkinson

I don't know what to make of that. "But you've been alive to witness thousands of years of human history. You must've seen love at some point during all that time." After all, he's the one who's always waxing on about how ageless he is.
"Yes," he says slowly. "But not like this."
Not as a living, breathing, feeling thing. And somehow that makes all the difference. ~ Laura Thalassa

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents. ~ Laura Bush

For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can. ~ Laura Prepon

Where are you getting your material - Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking ~ Laura Lippman

I'm alive,' said Shadow. 'I'm not dead. Remember?'
'You're not dead,' Laura said. 'But I'm not sure you're alive, either. Not really. ~ Neil Gaiman

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything. ~ Laura Hillenbrand