"If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience."

-- Lawrence Welk

#Planning Quotes #Performing Quotes #Audience Quotes

“Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. . . . . But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.249
“If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?”
“Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.”
“Learn the changes, then forget them.”
“What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?”
“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.827, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.”
“In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.”

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