"It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished."

-- Richard Jordan

#Army Quotes #Gun Quotes #Men Quotes

“Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the best happiness an artist can have. I'm not alone on stage but with a group of musicians. So the more the music is successful, the more the audience feel happy about the music. It's the responsiblity of an artist to make his fans happy. That is proposition. I'm always talking about proposition.”
“But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood in knee-high piles on the floor, books were crammed sideways and right side up in a narrow bookcase that rose higher than my head and leaned dangerously from the wall, books sat in stacks on top of a dingy dresser. The closet door was propped open by a pile of books, and from beneath the bed a book stuck out beside the toe of a maroon slipper.”

Source : Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.35, Vintage
“You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.”
“Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.”
“The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.”
“If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.”
“I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.”
“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

Source : Jodi Lynn Anderson (2006). “Peaches”, HarperCollins Children's Books

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