"Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse."

-- William Raspberry

#Life Quotes #Moving Quotes #Loss Quotes

“I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.”
“The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.”
“Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.”
“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
“To be what is called happy, one should have (1) something to live on, (2) something to live for, (3) something to die for. The lack of one of these results in drama. The lack of two results in tragedy.”
“When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.”
“Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.”

Source : John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA
“Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work...”

Source : Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.348, Columbia University Press

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