"Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch."

-- Pietro Aretino

#Ears Quotes #Flattery Quotes #Gallant Quotes

“You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'”
“Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.”
“I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.”
“America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.”
“Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.”
“I was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.”
“It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.”
“I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.”

Source : Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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