"I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing."

-- Jacques Yves Cousteau

#Life Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Wake Up Quotes

“So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.”
“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”
“It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.”
“People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.”
“I've always had a real fascination with Alice in Wonderland and really related to it in some way. And since I was little, people always nicknamed me Alice, even total strangers. I do know I'm always in Wonderland. And I'm definitely just as curious. I don't mind being amongst the mad people, I enjoy it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.”
“What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.”

Source : "Pakistan, a Dream Gone Sour". Book by Roedad Khan, 1997.
“What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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