"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

-- Norman Cousins

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.”
“I'm not a kicker and a screamer.”
“I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.”

Source : "Sound Structure in Music". Book by Robert Erickson, 1975.
“I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.”

Source : "The pick of the Montreal Comedy Festival". www.theguardian.com. September 09, 1999.
“I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.”
“If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last.”
“I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. ... Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. ... I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

Source : "Queen of the Black Coast". Short story by Robert E. Howard, 1934.

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