"I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober."

-- Beth Gibbons

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Littles Quotes

“If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.”
“Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.”
“Hope springs eternal, even in politics.”
“When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Complete freedom from stress is death”

Source : hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”
“I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.”

Source : "Ba Jin". Obituary in "The Times", October 25, 2005.
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).”

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