"We think by feeling. What is there to know?"

-- Theodore Roethke

#Knowledge Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.”

Source : "The new cool cat on the block" by Dino Scatena, www.smh.com.au. April 16, 2004.
“Much of an editor's job is in fact pretty nanny-like in nature: in many ways, you're there to protect and defend, to reassure and clean up. What I ask from writers is respect. I want them to respect me enough to turn in a clean draft. I want that draft to be as good as they can make it. I want to feel the thought behind those words. And I want it to be turned in on time. It drives me wild when I get a story that's obviously slapped together, and the same can be said for a manuscript; you should respect your reader enough to give her something that reflects your best efforts.”
“The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.”
“I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.”
“What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?”
“Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.”
“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”

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