"But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there."

-- Roger McGuinn

#Song Quotes #People Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies to reduce their advertising expenditure - simply because they do not understand its full value and especially as it is usually the single biggest investment on the balance sheet.”
“To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me thatâ€™s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments - if I take a picture of it I can remember so many more details. I think itâ€™s about choosing the exact picture in my head that signifies or symbolizes a moment - almost as if youâ€™re using film. Itâ€™s almost archaic.”
“I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.”
“Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva PerÃ³n and Josephine Baker.”
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable”

Source : Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.49, New Directions Publishing
“...Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries but they have one government, and when you buy the Howard Johnson franchise you can apply it to the geography - whatever's cool for that area - and then you, you know, pay the bread to the main office.”
“Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Inhuman”, p.12, Penguin

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