"It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me."

-- Barry White

#Expression Quotes #Laying Down Quotes #Next Quotes

“Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry”

Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen
“Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.”
“The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.”
“We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.”
“Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.”
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
“Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”
“There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.”

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