"I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin."

-- Sue Miller

#Grandmother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Might Quotes

“You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.”

Source : "Wayne Rooney Q&A - my time is now". Daily Mail Interview, worldfootball.dailymail.co.uk. June 19, 2012.
“Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence.”
“To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert , "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32, 1934.
“I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.”
“Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful general or a successful statesman.”
“Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.”
“I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.”

Source : Song: Angelene
“I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine.”

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