"Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key."

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Source : Song: Barometer Soup, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

Jimmy Buffett

#Simple Quotes #Keys Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“What choices are you making in your perception of the events around you? We choose how we view our times. There is a pinch of pessimism in our culture now. Counter it with small acts of optimism. Pick up a piece of litter that isn't yours. Show some extra grace on the freeway. Give to your food bank. Smile at a child who is in your way. Help someone you know. Help someone you don't know. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace. What's your choice?”

Source : Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks
“I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.”
“If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.”
“The significance is that it is my challenge; it gets me out of the door every morning and it is good for my physical and mental health which I can monitor on a daily basis.”
“Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.”
“God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.”
“One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so much as it is something that comes to you, or that presents itself.”

Source : "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.
“Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.”

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

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