"My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents."

-- Al Franken

#Home Quotes #Night Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.”
“I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it”
“In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.”
“I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.”
“I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.”
“Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.”
“Let whoever wants to, relax in the south, And bask in the garden of paradise. Here is the essence of northÂ—and it's autumn I've chosen as this year's friend.”
“The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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