"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ***** and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Heart Quotes #Character Quotes #Pigs Quotes

“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books
“Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.”
“The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.”

Source : Alexander H. Stephens “A”
“When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.”
“I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents and more distant ancestors. It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family which is passed on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.”
“I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit. But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them. It doesn't always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you're playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that's sort of an expensive proposition.”

Source : "Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne and Ivy)". Mars Investigations Interview, www.marsinvestigations.net. October 31, 2005.
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”

Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”
“The imagination never dies.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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