"Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them."

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Source : William Wharton (2014). “The Complete Collection”, p.104, HarperCollins UK

William Wharton

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I was also partying a lot, and when you party that much, you feel irrelevant to the meaning of things; things hit you with a very sick center. And 9/11 is no exception to that. I really wondered: "How could anything go on?"”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.”

Source : "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.
“I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.”
“I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.”
“Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?”
“If you must go nowhere, step out.”
“I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.”
“Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.”

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