"We are really in a rut with the three-minute song. You know where it's going to go. If you're trying to get your message across sometimes it's wise to say, Why don't we stop here and have a moment of silence, then go in a completely different direction?"

-- Jimmy Webb

#Wise Quotes #Song Quotes #Silence Quotes

“A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.”

Source : "Metaphysical Horror". Book by Leszek Kołakowski, 1988.
“I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.”
“I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.”
“Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.”
“I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under...”
“We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.”
“No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.”

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