"My reputation is a media creation."

-- John Lydon

#Media Quotes #Reputation Quotes #Creation Quotes

“Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.”
“The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.”
“Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.”

Source : 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
“Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.”

Source : Sarah Dunant (2001). “Mapping the Edge: A Novel”, p.163, Random House
“I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.”
“Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1772). “Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts”
“The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.”
“Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.”

Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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