"I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's point of view, I can see they must be thinking, "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" But recently I've been thinking, okay, a white guy can't sing soul, but would a black person be made exempt from singing opera because it's not a tradition that belongs to them? It's the same kind of argument."

-- Jamie Lidell

#Thinking Quotes #Guy Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.”
“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”
“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”
“When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.5
“She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2014.
“You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.”
“The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.”

Source : Robert Moss (2012). “Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole”, p.13, New World Library

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