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“Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself to be able to find it almost anywhere in almost anything.”
Source : Source: app.longform.org
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“I don't wanna go throught the motions I don't wanna go one more day Without your all-consuming Passion inside of me I don't wanna spend my whole life asking What if I had given everything? Instead of going through the motions.”
Source : Matthew West, Angela Thomas (2011). “The Story of Your Life”, p.174, Harvest House Publishers
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“travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.”
Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
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“Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.”
Source : "The Second Plane: September 11, 2001-2007" book by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. 2008.
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“I mean, I've always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that”
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“I am here because I am the first judge in this country to say, in 1990, that the war on drugs was racist. It still is and that hasn't changed”
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“Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.”