"The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions."

-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Party Quotes #Passion Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.”
“We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.”
“Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.”
“There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness, even if you fail, which we all must, everything you do in your work is somehow connected with your attitude toward life...”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.”
“Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.”

Source : Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.97, Da Capo Press
“These are the kind of movies that only a real apparatchik, someone who thinks that corporations are people, could love.”
“While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.”

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