"When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things."

-- John Lydon

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.”
“The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.”
“Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.”

Source : "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.
“When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school. Plates are full and store windows are glittering. But at the same time the great majority of the world's children and women stand - no - shiver on the precipice”
“Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.148, Random House
“There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.”

Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press
“The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.”
“I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!”

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