"If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you."

-- Scott Westerfeld

#Wind Quotes #Stories Quotes #Blind Quotes

“One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.”
“I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and it feels like magic. There is no explaining the magic. It floats in and then just like that, it floats out. There's no amount of money that will buy magic. I've watched myself try to coax it, but it is only when I relax and totally allow magic to envelop me that it has ever been kind.”
“And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends”

Source : Song: My Friends
“I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.”
“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.”

Source : Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
“The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.163, Broadway Books
“Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.”

Source : "An Oral History of Michael Bay, the Most Explosive Director of All Time". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. June 27, 2011.

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