"As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed."

-- Todd Rundgren

#Listening Quotes #Bed Quotes

“If an artwork never gets any attention from anybody, then obviously it's got problems. If it gains attention from a very small elite, then it's presumably doing something. Finnegans Wake gets a lot of attention from certain people who become passionate about it, who are usually very good readers in general. Although - I often talk about costs and benefits - it seems to me the costs of reading Finnegans Wake are not worth the benefits, however many there may be. And it's the same with the more arcane among poets, Zukofsky and so on.”
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.”
“The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.”

Source : Interview with Luning Wang, picassoandthesinglegirl.com. November 2016.
“Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?”
“If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.”
“I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.”
“One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.”
“There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.”

Source : "The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All the Original Illustrations".

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