"I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon."

-- Elaine Stritch

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Bells Quotes

“The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes unto its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes unreal.”

Source : "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.
“The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?”
“Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.”
“Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.”
“Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.”
“Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press
“How do you recover from an extraordinary loss? Take stock of the loved ones around you. Hug them, love them, and cherish them. When you appreciate the joys in your life, it makes sorrow that much easier to swallow. Every day is a new day. Hope floats, so let it rise. God is love.”
“I don't die in anything!”

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