"I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't."

-- Erroll Garner

#Color Quotes #Wind Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The moment youâ€™ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, youâ€™re already turning towards home.”
“The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity”
“Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it.”
“Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.”
“They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.”
“I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.”
“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”
“The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.”

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