"It is not enough just to open the door to the rooms of power. We have to get inside and rearrange the furniture!"

-- Gertrude Mongella

#Doors Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Furniture Quotes

“The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.”
“I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.”
“You are all angels, you guys know that right?”
“I have a rich, full, textured life.”
“When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.”

Source : Wright Morris (1968). “A Bill of Rites, a Bill of Wrongs, a Bill of Goods”, [New York] : New American Library
“It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction”
“It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.”

Source : "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.”

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