"No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack"

-- Zadie Smith

#Suicide Quotes #Beach Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.”
“You can't lose sight of what you did to get there”
“If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.”

Source : Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.15, University of Arkansas Press
“There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
“MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, THE EYE , AND THE IMAGINATION, A LITERATE CELEBRATION OF UNBRIDLED CREATIVITY, COUPLED WITH A TOUCH OF REBELLION AND AN INSOLENT DESIRE TO SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE DRAGON.”

Source : Stan Lee, George Mair (2002). “Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.”

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