"Thereâ€™s no such thing as a wrong note."

-- Art Tatum

“I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.”

Source : Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr
“We always try to mix it up-three-step drop, five-step drop, seven-step drop, naked bootleg. We spread out all these kinds of things to keep the defensive pass rush unbalanced.”
“God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.”
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
“Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A.”

Source : Song: Small Town USA, Album: Justin Moore, 2009
“Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.”

Source : “Donatella Versace On Her New Soho Store, Working with Christopher Kane, and Starting a Band” by Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. October 24, 2012.
“The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.”

Source : Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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