"Many of us spend more time on the C's of life than on the A's of life. Don't allow trivial things to crowd out the important ones."

-- Douglas Merrill

#Priorities Quotes #Important Quotes #Crowds Quotes

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

Source : Farewell, My Lovely ch. 13 (1940)
“Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.”
“And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.”
“I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me.”
“You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.”
“Two of the last four executive editors at the New York Times were Johannesburg bureau chiefs at some point, Bill Keller and Joe Lelyveld. This is a very prestigious post and I was like I don't know 28 years old, which at the Times is very young, I had the temerity to put my hand up for that job. I don't think I slept a single night of those six weeks that I spent in Johannesburg. It was an unbelievable experience, and I think I did okay.”
“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.”
“It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.”

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