"With Neptune City, I could have been singing about anybody's life that grew up where I did. The town I live in it isn't that magical, but when you're growing up, you think that everything is so important."

-- Nicole Atkins

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Singing Quotes

“People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed”

Source : Martina Cole (2008). “Close”, p.36, Hachette UK
“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”

Source : Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.99, Shambhala Publications
“There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.”

Source : Sheng-yen, Shengyan (1996). “Dharma drum: the life and heart of Chʻan practice”, Dharma Drum Pubns
“One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.”
“A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.”

Source : Bette Greene (1984). “Summer of my German soldier”, Starfire
“As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.”

Source : "Landon Donovan: World Cup Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 17, 2006.
“Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their financiers. But the lower classes had no use for them, and butchered them whenever a righteous excuse could be found. And righteous excuses were not wanting. If a plague broke out, of course the Jews had poisoned the wells. If a war was lost, of course the Jews had aided the enemy. If a boy mysteriously disappeared, of course the Jews had murdered him to procure blood for their Passover drink...”

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