"I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities."

-- Mary Timony

#Musical Quotes #Musician Quotes #Poet Quotes

“As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.”

Source : Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.110
“I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.”
“... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.”
“I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.”
“Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.”
“I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.”
“You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction, but cooking for the people whom you wake up with and go to sleep with is the best thing ever”

Source : Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.104, Penguin
“It gets darker and darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.”

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