"Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes."

--

George R. R. Martin

#Mouths Quotes #Babe Quotes

“There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)”

Source : Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.203, Penguin
“The secret of a great melody is a secret.”
“I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.”
“I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.”
“There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.”
“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.”
“I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.”
“Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.”

Source : "The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. viii), 1962.

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