"Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century."

-- Scott Yanow

#Jazz Quotes #Century Quotes #Heard Quotes

“Mission 31 pays homage to my grandfather's work and all aquanauts who have since followed his lead in the name of ocean exploration.”

Source : FaceBook post by Fabien Cousteau from Jun 29, 2014
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

Source : Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge
“Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.”
“We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.”
“Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.”
“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
“Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.”

Source : O.J. Brigance, Peter Schrager (2013). “Strength of a Champion: Finding Faith and Fortitude Through Adversity”, p.119, Penguin

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