"Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ..."

-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#Music Quotes #Writing Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.”

Source : "Palin Calls For Obama's Impeachment: 'Halt An Imperial Presidency'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 08, 2014.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and orderâ€”willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
“Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.”
“I held out my hot dog, which had grown cold. â€œDo you want this?â€ â€œNo way. Youâ€™re going to need it. If anything bad happens, just take a bite. Ten seconds later, youâ€™ll feel all warm and happy inside.”
“Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.”
“It's an opportunity that's there for all of us, like a life raft or preserver to hang onto when there's nothing else or no one else around because man, we're human and no matter what, one way or another, everyone of us in our lives, at some point in time, are going to feel alone.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.”
“I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?”

Source : Sachin Kundalkar (2016). “Cobalt Blue: A Novel”, p.13, New Press, The

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