"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."

-- Philip Levine

#People Quotes #Advice Quotes #Who Cares Quotes

“it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.”
“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”
“And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.”
“I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.”

Source : "Q: Didn't hanging out with Dylan and the Beatles feel like intruding on a boys' club? A: Yeah. So I'd make tea. And dry Dylan's sweaty vests". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2006.
“I'm funding a new business with money I would have given away in the first place. And I'm starting a responsible business and I'm educating the consumer about chemistry that is totally sustainable - not just from a production point of view, but it also helps sustain the human psyche and physical body - based on informational, energetic matter.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.”
“In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.”
“Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless were going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.”

Source : "The Gun Seller". Book by Hugh Laurie, 1996.

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