"Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down"

-- Malcolm Cowley

#Long Quotes #Age Quotes #Sitting Down Quotes

“Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.”
“To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.”

Source : Marshall Berman (1983). “All that is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity”, p.15, Verso
“I'm a drummer. I've been playing since I was three. I was in college bands when I was in elementary school: you'd see all these older kids and then this little kid behind the drums creating this big sound.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 6, 2012.
“The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.”
“At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.”
“When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.”
“It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.”
“If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jojo Moyes from Aug 07, 2014

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