"ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlÃ¨d ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear."

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Source : 'The Habit of Perfection' (written 1866)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Music Quotes #Silence Quotes #Ears Quotes

“Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 24, 2012
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.”
“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”
“I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.”
“The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.”
“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.”
“If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.”
“Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.”

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