"I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert."

-- Peggy Guggenheim

#Advice Quotes #Listening Quotes #Experts Quotes

“I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward my wife. "Dead." My eyes drift toward the sky and lose their focus. "Want it...to hurt. But...doesn't." Julie looks at me like she's waiting for more, and I wonder if I've expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.”
“We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.”
“Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along.”
“I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.”

Source : Song: Torn, Album: Left of the Middle
“After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.”
“People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.20, Vintage
“I love all history because itâ€™s storytelling. But, I will always have a special place in my heart for the Tudor dynasty.”

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