"My mother was into folk-rock when I was little, so I think of folk-rock as the norm from which everything else deviates. Of course, that's completely preposterous, but that's how I grew up. What is the norm by which to judge wordiness? I think I'm less wordy than Madonna."

-- Stephin Merritt

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes

“We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost,”
“Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.”
“Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.”
“There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”
“Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.”

Source : Fanny Crosby (1915). “Fanny Crosby's Story of Ninety-four Years”
“If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.”
“You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.”
“We comes from God, I from the Devil.”

Source : Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.115, Penguin

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