"Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!"

-- Bertolt Brecht

#Moon Quotes #Bye Quotes #Alabama Quotes

“The meaning of the story is the story.”
“I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my legs in pictures and videos but not often when I'm appearing live.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse. Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit.”
“I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.”
“As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.”
“Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.”
“If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2012). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.58, Granta Books
“Recognizing happiness when it's lying at your feet, having the will and courage to reach down and take it in your arms--and to hold on to it--that's the heart's intelligence. Intelligence minus the heart is just logic, and that doesn't amount to much. - Arthur”

Source : Marc Levy (2005). “If Only It Were True”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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