"Songs are as sad as the listener."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Music Quotes #Song Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.”
“I got to work with [Carlos] Santana, who's been my idol forever. When I was 18, I got up with him in Australia and jammed with him. That was an amazing moment because I got up in front of my hometown crowd.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.”
“to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.”
“Thoughts can hurt like real pain.”

Source : Alice Childress (2000). “A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich”, p.19, Penguin
“It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.”
“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.”
“After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.”

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