"Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast."

--

Source : Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”

Compton Mackenzie

#Anniversary Quotes #World Quotes #Whiskey Quotes

“Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.”
“I'm a New Yorker, you know.”
“I can't believe food costs money.”
“Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.”
“You know those days when you get the mean reds?”
“With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.”
“A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.”
“I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.”

Source : "My Life and Music" by Artur Schnabel, (p. 121), 1961.

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