"Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days"

-- Elias Canetti

#Believe Quotes #Goal Quotes #Force Quotes

“Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.”
“Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin.”
“Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!”
“So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see is that, in adults, they go to bed and they start off by going into the deeper stages sleep.”
“Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.”
“My dad wrote a song about the people in the slides. I started playing harmonica. I was only six.”

Source : "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.
“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”

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