"How do you invent a religion?â€ Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. â€œYou say, â€˜God told me the following,â€™ and then wait for people to sign up."

-- Libba Bray

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Following Quotes

“To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.”
“We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.”
“Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.”
“If we get through for two minutes only it will be a start!”
“Most of us would be far enough from vanity if we heard all the things that are said about us.”
“Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.”
“Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.”
“The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.”

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