"I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work."

-- Otis Blackwell

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Always look on the bright side of life.”
“Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect,”
“As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.”
“The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong.”
“I don't care. People here have to find their own way, negotiate for themselves, use their own brains.”
“I been the same dude my whole life.”
“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”
“I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.”

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