Midsummer famous quotes

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

Everybody feels like a freak in some way at some time in their life. Or feels on the outside. And everybody is worthy of love.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.