"The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning."

-- Nick Hornby

#Song Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't have an agent. I don't take meetings or anything like that, so I don't really know what's out there. I'm not closed off to anything, but I'd just have to ask myself at every step if it's worth it.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.”

Source : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”
“I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me”
“Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage
“We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.”

Source : Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.26, American Foundation for the Blind
“Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.”

Source : Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated
“Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.”

Source : Eliza Acton (1868). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.594
“If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.”

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