"I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something."

-- Mark Linkous

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.”
“Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.”
“There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.”

Source : "Q&A – Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.
“Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.”

Source : "Writings on Physics and Philosophy" by Wolfgang Pauli, (p. 142), 1994.
“We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.”
“I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway...”
“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”
“Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.”

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