"I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?"

-- Malachy McCourt

#Stupid Quotes #War Quotes #Destiny Quotes

“Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.”
“Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.”
“This is ideal, youâ€™ll see. We do everything backward. Itâ€™s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next, weâ€™ll progress to courting. When weâ€™re old and silver-haired, perhaps weâ€™ll finally get around to flirtation. Weâ€™ll make fond eyes at each other over our mugs of gruel. Weâ€™ll be the envy of couples half our age.”
“Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.”

Source : "Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith". Book by Jennifer L. Holberg, March 31, 2006.
“I saw a Velveeta commercial, and it was playing, I think, 'Burning Love.' [Jackson] had approved it-that's something we can't control. He can do whatever he wants with the songs he owns to make money, and that got under my skin.”
“It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 2, 2015
“To be up on stage and interacting with musicians, that was a huge epiphany for me.”

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