"You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations."

-- David Gray

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.”
“If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.”
“With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'”
“The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.”
“Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had ...and will belong to science.”
“The French announced today that they would not help us remove Saddam from Iraq. Well Duh! They didn't even help us remove Hitler from France.”
“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”
“We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human”

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