"When you're telling a story, you've got to give details."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Giving Quotes #Details Quotes #Stories Quotes

“My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.”
“I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?”
“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.”

Source : Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.
“You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.”
“And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.”

Source : Song: Fountain Of Sorrow, Album: Late for the Sky, 1974
“It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.”
“We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.”
“Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.”

Source : "Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard". Tagline, www.imdb.com. September 18, 2006.

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