"We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of usâ€¦This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened."

-- Timothy B. Tyson

#Kings Quotes #Moving Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.”
“Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.”
“I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.”
“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
“As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will eventually allow you to probe eternity in the final movement of Beethovenâ€™s last sonata. Imagine that you are scrubbing the grout in your bathroom and are told that removing every last particle of mildew will somehow enable you to deliver the Gettysburg Address.”

Source : "Every Good Boy Does Fine" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2013.
“The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest.”

Source : Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard (1904). “The World's Best Poetry ...”
“It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.35, Rowman & Littlefield
“When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.”

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