"I always thought I was singing American folk music."

-- Lonnie Donegan

#Singing Quotes #Folks Quotes #Folk Music Quotes

“We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.”
“The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.”
“In the eyes of the Iranians, they don't respect or fear Barack Obama. He drew a line against Assad when he used chemical weapons and did nothing about it. And our friends, the Arabs and the Israelis, don't trust President Obama.”
“If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.”
“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”
“I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.”
“You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.”
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

Source : Margaret Mitchell (1936). “Gone with the wind”, Avon Books

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