"I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well.""

-- St. Lucia

#Song Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I treat others exactly the way I want to be treated.”
“Don't you quote Sister White. I don't want you ever to quote Sister White until you get your vantage ground where you know where you are. Quote the Bible. Talk the Bible. It is full of meat, full of fatness. Carry it right out in your life, and you will know more Bible than you know now.”
“No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.”

Source : "Citigroup pays $7bn to settle sub-prime mortgage investigation" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2014.
“I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.”
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr
“My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.”
“My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.”

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