"There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night."

-- Robert Wyatt

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.”
“It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
“Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.”
“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures”
“My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe”
“There is also something exciting about the risk. Somewhere in me is a sadist that likes pain, I guess.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.”

Source : Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press

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