"It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse."

-- Neil Peart

#Sports Quotes #Country Quotes #Distance Quotes

“She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.”
“I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.”
“There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me. Not me. Not me. Not me.”
“The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.”
“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of natureâ€™s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.”
“Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.”
“My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.”

Source : "Is this it?". Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.
“For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.”

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