"In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love."

-- BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h

#Heart Quotes #Garden Quotes #Rose Quotes

“We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.”
“My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...”
“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.”
“Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.”
“This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.”
“In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.”
“The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.”

Source : "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.
“We all use dishwashers every day and yet none of us would say that we're experts on dishwashers, but somehow we all think we're experts on movies.”

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