"We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night â€” every night, every night â€” the moment I feigned sleep."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Country Quotes #Dog Quotes #Book Quotes

“See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.”
“I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.”
“We are only as blind as we want to be.”
“What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.”

Source : "Blair: Howard is exploiting Dixon" by Tom Happold, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.
“In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.”
“The present has its Ã©lan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.”
“A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.”

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