"My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had."

-- Carl Perkins

#Dad Quotes #Guitar Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?”
“Learn to eat problems for breakfast”
“I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.”
“If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.214, Vintage
“I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.”
“The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.”

Source : David Berlinski (2011). “A Tour of the Calculus”, p.119, Vintage
“I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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