"Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial."

-- Karen Thompson Walker

#Thinking Quotes #California Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“All music done, as I said, through low res mp3 and $5 earbuds and so I think as a producer or a band you want your music to sound good in that medium. Sometimes when I'm doing a mix I'll listen to it on my laptop, on the crappy speakers on my laptop. It lets me know what the tracks gonna sound like if someone else listens to it that way.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.”
“It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.”
“Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.”
“It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.”
“The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.”
“Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.”

Source : Robert William Service, “Weary”
“Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side”

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