"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."

-- Jay McShann

#Listening Quotes #Trying Quotes #Excited Quotes

“I don't want to be home just taking medicine and waiting to die, you know? That's not something I'm about.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long: To look at this green and say, "I have seen spring in these Woods," will not do - you must Be the thing you see: You must be the dark snakes of Stems and ferny plumes of leaves, You must enter in To the small silences between The leaves, You must take your time And touch the very peace They issue from.”
“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”
“A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.”
“Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.”
“We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.”
“These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.”
“To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”

Source : Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.42, Routledge

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