"I applied, and I got in as a pianist. Their idea in the music department was that pianists, if they were good enough to get in, they were good enough to learn a new instrument. They felt sorry for pianists being alone in the practice room all the time, and they really wanted to socialize us pianists."

-- Zeena Parkins

#Sorry Quotes #Practice Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2001). “Never let it end: poems of a lifelong love”, Baker Pub Group
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
“I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.”

Source : Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.65, Melville House
“What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can't think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids. Now we've got a problem.”
“Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.”
“I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.”

Source : Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.273, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.”
“A bit is worth 10,000 basis points.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.75, Macmillan

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