"Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest."

-- Walt Whitman

#Drinking Quotes #Son Quotes #Men Quotes

“Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.”
“Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.”
“Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”
“I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.65, Zed Books
“I think, if you can only talk about your stuff in a jargonistic way, you're not as smart as you think. You're alienating people who deserve to have a conversation, or a place in the conversation. If you take the complete inverse and are staunchly anti-intellectual, then I think there's a certain amount of resentfulness in that. There's something about that standpoint that feels a little bit insecure.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.”

Source : Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.16, Pan Macmillan
“Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.”
“I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.”

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