"I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics ."

-- Michael Stipe

#Girl Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Real Quotes

“Style has become very important, the whole idea of style, what your personal style is. It's your identity.”
“Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.”
“I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.”
“The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go back, he'll Beat his wings 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The Flame is real, 'Cause Flame and Moth got a sweetheart deal. And nothing fuels a good flirtation, Like Need and Anger and Desperation... No, The Moth don't care if The Flame is real. . .”
“Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results.”
“If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.”
“Fear is the enemy of curiosity.”

Source : Warren Berger (2014). “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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