"Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts."

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Source : "Eels: He’s Electric". Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2009.

Mark Oliver Everett

#Hurt Quotes #Three Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.”
“A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Waltons" ("The Hunt", 1972), www.imdb.com. (1971–1981).
“For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.”
“What is done can never be undone.”
“I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
“If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today”
“When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.”
“Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.”

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