"I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about."

-- Nikki Jean

#Song Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
“Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.”
“The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
“The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.”

Source : W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.115, Oxford University Press
“One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.”

Source : Source: www.hamptons.com
“What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.”
“A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,”

Source : "The clues to a great story". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2012.
“While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.”

Source : Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.12, Penguin

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