"The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country."

-- Hugh MacLennan

#Country Quotes #Healing Quotes #Grace Quotes

“When you look at men's fashion magazines, you see a lot of well-groomed guys in suits, but very rarely do you see a lot of guys in drop-crotch and hoods with high-tops. It's coming, though, because guys in suits and short hair are beginning to look like they're from another time.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.”
“One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.150, Ballantine Books
“I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.”
“I believe everyone on earth has a certain goal/dream in life. I also believe anyone can achieve this if they set their minds to it.”
“At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.”
“This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.”
“The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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