"People who understand Doom don't blink an eye at song lengths."

-- Mike Scheidt

#Song Quotes #Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone; And make the spring straight bury all her birth. Rich are the diligent who can command Time--nature's stock.”
“I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.”
“I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."”
“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.”
“The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.”
“I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.”
“Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.”
“Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere â€“ on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.”

Source : "Shrine or Factory?" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1918.

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