"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."

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Source : "His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America during the winter of 1871-72", Riverside Press, 1872.

James Russell Lowell

#Wisdom Quotes #Blessed Quotes

“From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
“Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.”
“I can't remember who it was - maybe Brian Eno - but some important musician guy said he recorded ambient noise from a city street and after he listened to these field recordings for the millionth time, it was like, "Oh yeah, at 1:23, that's where the car horn comes in." So when you're doing stuff like this, and you've been working on it for a year, you're like, "Oh yeah man, that makes perfect sense!" And then you forget when you give it to people, they're bewildered.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“As a child I wanted to become an architect.”
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
“I had a serious boyfriend in high school, but we would take breaks in between. You shouldn't always have a boyfriend!”
“You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.”
“I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.”

Source : "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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