"This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender..."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Mean Quotes #Want Quotes

“We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved the story and the characters. We thought it would make a very compelling season of television. We were like, "Someone is going to make this. Why don't we do it?"”
“Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.”

Source : "Manhattan rhapsodies" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.
“We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.”
“The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?”
“I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.”
“There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.”
“Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.”
“You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.”

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