"Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax."

-- Nick Hornby

#Heart Quotes #Swings Quotes #Cds Quotes

“If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.245, New York Review of Books
“So I was right, wasn't I? It's still you, even in wolf form.' He grunted. No sudden uncontrollable urges to go kill something?' He rolled his eyes. Hey, you're the one who was worried.' I paused. 'And I don't smell like dinner, right?' I got a real look for that one. Just covering all the bases.”
“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”
“We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.”
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
“I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.”
“Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.”

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