"It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time."

-- Phil Keaggy

#Thinking Quotes #Awards Quotes #Once Upon A Time Quotes

“Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?”

Source : Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers
“This was very exciting. I'd never had two boys get into a fight over me before. The fact that one of the boys was my stepbrother, however, and held about as much romantic appeal for me as Max, the family dog, somewhat dampened my enthusiasm. And Michael wasn't much of a catch, either, when you actually thought about it, being a potential murderer and all. Oh, why did I have to have such a couple of losers fighting over me? Why couldn't Matt Damon and Ben Affleck fight over me? Now that would be truly excellent.”
“It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.”

Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“When I first came up to the majors and I'd have a bad day, I'd punish myself. I would do something like not eat dinner. Now I've come to appreciate that we play 162 games a year, and you're going to have bad days. And not eating dinner hurts, it doesn't help.”
“Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.”
“But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.”
“I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.”

Source : Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.
“We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.”

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