"Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes it's too distracting. If I'm listening to something I really love - I have to stop and give everything over to it. I'm listening to its structures, its melodic lines, the bass. It takes up too much of my head - in a good way."

-- Paul Lisicky

#Coffee Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.”
“the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA
“The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.”
“All of lifeâ€™s riddles are answered in the movies.”
“I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.”
“I hate to lose more than I love to win.”
“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
“The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.”

Source : Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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