"Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light."

-- Gregory Orr

#Light Quotes #Labyrinth Quotes #Despair Quotes

“I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.”
“Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”
“So that's our new flag. The thing we've been fighting for-thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.”
“Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.”
“L.A.'s cool; I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.”
“We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.”
“Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.”

Source : "An Interview with Alan Bishop". July 1, 2008.
“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.”

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