"I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave."

-- Michelle Huneven

#Want Quotes #Wave Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Where your food comes from is as important as how you smoke it.”
“I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.”
“There is nothing that you cannot do.”
“Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .”

Source : Francis Hutcheson (1769). “An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections”, p.7
“I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.”
“It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.”
“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”
“I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.”

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