"In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goinâ€™ bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethinâ€™ else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it."

-- Buddy Wakefield

#Dream Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1982). “Collected poems”, Carcanet New Press ; New York : Viking Press
“He doesnâ€™t pretend,â€ the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. â€œNice rings. You got anything else pierced?â€ â€œYes,â€ Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. â€œMe too,â€ he said.”
“And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.”
“A good song is a good song whatever your age.”
“And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.”
“You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.”
“A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press
“It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.”

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