"The thing is, when you're kind of creatively self-employed, your brain just kind of chooses the path of least resistance, so if you really exhausted and you've had a long day, then that's typically when you might respond to emails or if you're on a plane and have nothing else to do, then you might listen to music and write these satirical pieces trying to explain the charts with music theory."

-- Owen Pallett

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Try to imagine an America without rich people. Rich people contribute a lot to this country.”
“You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.”
“Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt.”
“Duane Allman inspired the group to explore the extended jam format that was already a staple of the Allman Brothers act. Moreover, his ferocious slide playing motivated Clapton to turn in some of the finest guitar performances of his career”
“In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.”

Source : Ferdinand de Saussure (2013). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.8, A&C Black
“The worst stuff that you say sounds better than the best stuff that some other people say”
“I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day.”
“What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the friend of sun and sky; He plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty, towering high, he plants a home to heaven anigh. For song and mother-croon of bird, in hushed and happy twilight heard - The treble of heaven's harmony. These things he plants who plants a tree.”

Source : Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Heart Of The Tree”

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