"Who does not believe his first passion eternal?"

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Believe Quotes #Passion Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.”
“speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.”
“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
“The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial interest.”
“Who's your fat friend ?”

Source : Referring to the Prince of Wales, in Capt. Jesse 'Life of George Brummell' (1844) vol. 1, p. 273
“Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.”
“Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.”

Source : Addison Wiggin (2005). “The Demise of the Dollar... and Why It's Great For Your Investments”, Wiley
“If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?.”

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