"Okay, a truly great song is a song that makes its own aesthetic intentions clear and then lives up to them and exceeds them in an interesting way. Alright?"

-- Stephin Merritt

#Song Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Intention Quotes

“Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.”
“You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,”
“There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.”
“I hate mornings. They start so early.”
“Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts. Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths. Surrender your anger. Surrender your control.”

Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2008). “Darkling: An Otherworld Novel”, p.245, Penguin
“I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.”
“You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.”
“Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!”

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