"What you practice, is what you’ll do"

“It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it.”

“I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.”

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”

“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.10, Penguin

“The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.”

“There are a lot of latchkey kids. I don't want to be sitting there when a guy blurts something out over the TV and have my daughters ask me what those words mean.”

Source : "GOP representative would ban dirty words from TV / Ose angry FCC failed to act when Bono, Richie used f -- word" by Edward Epstein, www.sfgate.com. January 9, 2004.

“I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.”

“Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?”

Source : Bruno Schulz (2011). “The Fictions of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass: The Street of Crocodiles & Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass”, p.101, Pan Macmillan