"He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it."

-- Mark Helprin

#Privilege Quotes #Body Quotes #Portions Quotes

“God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.”
“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”
“Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.”
“I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.”
“It is naÃ¯ve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.”
“Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Most people ask of their friends that they understand them, but, on balance, I think I prefer a friend who understands himself.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.257, iUniverse
“I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.”

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