"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks"

-- Joseph Epstein

#People Quotes #Musical Quotes #Training Quotes

“If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.”
“Have you watched the fairies when the rain is done, Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun?”

Source : Rose Fyleman, “Have You Watched The Fairies?”
“Anyone who lives in a city will know the feeling of having been there too long. The gorge-vision that the streets imprint on us, the sense of blockage, the longing for surfaces other than glass, brick, concrete and tarmac....I have lived in Cambridge on and off for a decade, and I imagine I will continue to do so for years to come. And for as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places.”
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.”
“He [Jock Stein] phoned and asked me to come over and see him one night Hibs were playing at home to Aberdeen. You know Im coming as manager, he said, and I know youll be disappointed. But I want to reciprocate for you making me your deputy by asking you to become my assistant.”
“I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.”

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