"To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting."

-- Janeane Garofalo

#Kind Quotes #Social Quotes #Combat Quotes

“If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.”
“The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.”
“The average English critic is a don manquÃ©, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".”

Source : 'Opera' December 1950
“For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.”

Source : Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.315, "F+W Media, Inc."
“Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.”
“Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo”
“Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.”

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