Quotes from Sting

He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable outcome The numbers lead a dance I know that the spades Are the swords of a soldier I know that the clubs are weapons of war I know that diamonds Mean money for this art But that's not the shape of my heart

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Every road I walked would take me down to the sea With every broken promise in my sack And every love would always send the ship of my heart Over the rolling sea

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

being in love is to be relieved of gravity.

Songs are built by whimsy, faulty memory, and free association.

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing

The search for perfection is all good and well... But to look for heaven is to live here in hell.

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you The subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like or love you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

He knows that something somewhere has to break/He sees the family home now looming in the headlights/The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache/ Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage/on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

Every day is a brand new day!

Sweet desert rose Each of her veils, a secret promise This desert flower No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold

Men go crazy in congregations They only get better one by one

In my quest to become unique, I've become a statistic.

Every day another miracle Only death will tear us apart To sacrifice a life for yours I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart The blood of the Lazarus heart

I've been to every single book I know To soothe the thoughts that plague me so.

Don't judge me. You could be me in another life, another set of circumstances.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.