"Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends."

--

Norman Douglas

#Home Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Iâ€™ve given pure sex appeal very littleÂ thought. If I had to think about it Iâ€™m sure it would frighten me.”
“once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd
“The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.”
“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”
“The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.”
“I have never seen a ghost, no. Or I've buried it deep in my subconscious.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!”
“It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.”

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