"Time stoops to no man's lure."

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Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192

Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to doâ€”that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.”
“The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is a means to an end. I think it's really easy to forget that - I'd sooner play something musical than flash, and as I can't play anything flash, I try to be musical. Drums can set a mood, create an impression, as much as anything else.”

Source : Source: www.roland.co.uk
“We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.”
“I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 9, 2008.
“Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.”
“Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.”
“It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2012). “The Mostly True Adventures Of Homer P. Figg”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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