"Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate."

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Source : Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211

Colley Cibber

#Running Quotes #Fall Quotes #Food Quotes

“Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.”

Source : "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.
“Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.”
“We don't have a studio, we don't have a radio station, we don't have anybody breathing down our necks to make a budget. We don't have any benchmarks that we have to hit. Our benchmarks are ones that we have set.”
“An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.”
“Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.”
“What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award.”
“My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.”
“We are all social human beings, so making music is a way to contribute to society, to feel needed, to feel necessary. We need this. My driving force is the fun of doing something creative, being a valuable member of society, and getting feedback.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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