"I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest."

-- Robert Wyatt

#Real Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.”
“At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.”
“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”
“Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.”

Source : On being criticized by Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons, 'Hansard' 14 June 1978, col. 1027
“The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“I wanted to put reality in my photographs. Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. That's what was happening. And I was going to help make it happen. Boy, they did not want that in America.”
“I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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