"My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help."

-- Paul Johnson

#Life Quotes #Art Quotes #Dark Quotes

“The recent trading environment has felt something like walking into a place and having a sense that something is wrong and dangerous but not knowing exactly what will happen or when. â€œQE Infinityâ€ has so distorted the prices of stocks and bonds that nobody can possibly determine what the investing landscape would look like, or what the condition of the economy and financial system would be, in the absence of Fed bond-buying.”
“We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.”
“I think really what I'm saying is that I thrive on adversity.”
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

Source : "Fictional character: Spock". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", www.imdb.com. 1982.
“... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't ...”
“It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.”
“It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

Source : "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" ed. by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.
“For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.”

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