"If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention."

-- Miles Davis

#Attention Quotes #Nervous Quotes #Pay Attention Quotes

“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.”
“I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's point of view, I can see they must be thinking, "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" But recently I've been thinking, okay, a white guy can't sing soul, but would a black person be made exempt from singing opera because it's not a tradition that belongs to them? It's the same kind of argument.”
“Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.”
“I will bring more Korean dance moves and Korean songs overseas.”
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
“Weâ€™re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so weâ€™re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and weâ€™re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? Weâ€™re already overpopulated. I feel weâ€™ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, weâ€™ll just keep devouring the planet, and I donâ€™t think itâ€™s going to stand for that very long.”
“Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.”
“Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support.”

Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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