"The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi."

-- Mort Sahl

#Distance Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Action Quotes

“My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.”

Source : "Mark Ronson: This charming man" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2010.
“Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!”
“Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.”
“I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.”

Source : Corey Feldman (2013). “Coreyography: A Memoir”, p.247, Macmillan
“I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.”
“I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.”
“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.”

Source : "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.
“The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.”

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