"You can’t shine if you don’t burn."

-- Kevin Ayers

#Shining Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.”
“I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.413
“The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.”
“The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.”

Source : "Trick Daddy denies beef with Rick Ross, says he's not responsible for prison-guard rumors" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 28, 2008.
“There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.”
“White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released.”
“A real woman needs quotes by dead men to get through the day.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 16, 2013

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