"True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear."

-- Iris Murdoch

“I dont have a trainer. I have what I call the poor mans workout and the rich mans diet. I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if its 3 in the morning.”
“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.33, Library of Alexandria
“God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts contrary to the people's interests deposes itself, ceases to be a legitimate government, and, therefore, citizens are no longer obligated by Scripture to obey it.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.”
“Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen”
“There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.”
“To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.”

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