"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

-- Erma Bombeck

#Summer Quotes #Mother Quotes #Hurt Quotes

“A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.”
“Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.”
“I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. ItÂ´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent canÂ´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.”
“I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.”
“Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.”
“Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.”
“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”
“I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days; I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.”

Source : "The Buzzcocks were very Mondrian and we were Pollock". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.

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