"Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess)."

-- Frederic Chopin

#Life Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“... life, by definition, is never still.”
“It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times. Â Â Â Â â€œWhether there's any 'subliminal effect' from the court, I don't know, but we certainly couldn't let it interfere with our creativity.”
“I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.”
“If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.”

Source : "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.
“The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.”
“If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.”
“The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.”
“Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.”

Source : "Darius Green and his Flying-Machine". Book by John Townsend Trowbridge, 1910.

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