"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."

-- Paul Simon

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.”
“People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.”
“What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.”
“The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.”

Source : William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.151, Hackett Publishing
“I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.”
“Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.”
“Players prefer the FA Cup because it's the end of season curtain-raiser.”
“Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.”

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