"My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things."

-- Renzo Novatore

#Old Things Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (1864). “Tom Brown at Oxford”, p.156
“The fascination with the music stayed with me for years and I wanted to find out why I liked it so much and to learn the grammar of it, and that's why I tried to write the sheet music down. Writing it down gave me some ideas of other versions of the music and I wrote the first string quartets and piano pieces based on transcriptions.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Do you know,' he said again softly, addressing his hands, 'what it is to love someone, and never - never! - be able to give them peace, or joy, or happiness?' He looked up then, eyes filled with pain. 'To know that you cannot give them happiness, not through any fault of yours or theirs, but only because you were not born the right person for them?”
“Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.”
“I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.”
“My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.”
“Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.”
“I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.”

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