"I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something."

-- Chris Isaak

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Guitar Quotes

“The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.”
“The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture”
“I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.”
“This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.”
“We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?”
“The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.”
“I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”

Source : Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.
“Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.”

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