"I went looking for trouble, and I found it."

--

Charles Ponzi

#Trouble Quotes #Found Quotes

“We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.”
“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.”
“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.”
“I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time.”

Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin
“A woman warm and willing is what I'm looking for, cause the whiskey ain't working anymore.”
“I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.”
“Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.”
“Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.”

Source : "Larry Flynt: What I've Learned" by john H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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