"Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life."

-- Samuel R. Delany

#Survival Quotes #Boring Quotes #Spending Quotes

“I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.
“With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.”
“In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively that the pots that really interested us were the pots that people had used in their everyday life, and we began to think - I mean, whether it was ancient Greece or Africa or Europe or wherever, the pots that people had used in their homes were the ones that excited us.”
“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.”
“You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 4: Real Live Boyfriends”, p.163, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
“The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.”

Source : "Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself". Book by Sabrina Ward Harrison, 2000.
“I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty. [Lat., Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, et mea Virtute me involvo, probamque Pauperiem sine dote quaero.]”
“A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.”

Source : "The Twilight Zone. The Hunt" Season 3, Episode 19, January 26, 1962.

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