"As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act."

-- George M. Cohan

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1984). “In My Mother's House”, Perennial
“...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.”
“When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.”
“I never seem to find what I'm looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don't know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.”
“Parade your pallor in iniquity.”

Source : Song: Give Blood, Album: White City: A Novel
“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”
“With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.”
“Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.”

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