"This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it."

-- Rumi

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #Long Quotes

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.”
“I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.”

Source : "20 Questions With Brooks & Dunn". The CMT Interview, www.cmt.com. October 19, 2004.
“No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead can serve as the reason for granting or denying rights to children. Rights will be granted because without them children are incapacitated, oppressed, and abused.”
“There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.”
“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.”

Source : Jan Myrdal (1980). “The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu”, Orion
“I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors”
“The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.”
“A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.”

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