"No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength"

-- Jack Kerouac

#Being Alone Quotes #Men Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn't sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn't love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”
“I want to see people dance, and I would like to guess what kind of people they are. I don't want to know the recipe for their pasta.”
“I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war...”

Source : "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 559), 1965.
“... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore”
“If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?”
“Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..”

Source : "South Bronx Subway Rap". Song by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein, 1983.
“I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.”
“The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.”

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