#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Insane Quotes
“I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.”
“Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.
“I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.”
“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”
“Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”
“Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.”
“Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.”
“For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.”
Brion Gysin Painter
Martin Harris Latter Day Saints
William S. Burroughs Novelist
Davis Schneiderman Writer
