"The [priest] was really my teacher, because I reacted against the things he told me."

-- Leopold Sedar Senghor

#Teacher Quotes #Priests Quotes

“Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.”
“Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.”

Source : John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”
“It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.”
“I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.”
“'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.”
“Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.”
“Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.”
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.”

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