"I think this is the beginning of a really cool period in music because what we've been living through has been mostly super-testosterone rock, and there's nothing wrong with testosterone but it is damn boring."

-- Sam Endicott

#Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Boring Quotes

“Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?”
“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”
“It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others.”

Source : "Making Presidential History". Live chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.
“I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.”
“If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.”

Source : Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.74, Penguin
“Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth canâ€™t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation thatâ€™s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that â€” that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.”
“Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.”
“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.”

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