"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'"

-- John Cage

#Mean Quotes #Listening Quotes #Entertainment Quotes

“I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Apr 04, 2013
“I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.”
“Even though these are different times, right now we are particularly thinking about what is leadership, and Washington's qualities are as needed today as they were at the founding of this great nation.”
“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.”
“I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever”
“Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.”

Source : "Greening America’s Schools: costs and benefits". Research by Gregory Kats, www.usgbc.org. October 2006.
“I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.”

Source : c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 3, sc.2.
“Isolated, she managed somehow to feel freeâ€”albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.”

Source : Flora Rheta Schreiber (1975). “Sybil”

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