"There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would survive. I think ever since, you can feel this pulse in the guy, an almost physical enthusiasm."

-- James Taylor

#Adversity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guy Quotes

“A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.”
“The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.”
“We be sticking pill up girl's booty, too!”

Source : "The 20 Funniest Things Rappers Have Ever Said (Not In a Rap Song)" by Brian Brooks, Nicholas Sella, www.complex.com. October 27, 2013.
“The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated
“Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."”

Source : Letter to William H. Seward, 3 Mar. 1861
“I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.”
“I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being â€“ but I'm alive.”

Source : "Cancer Survivor Diem Brown After Hysterectomy: I'm Thankful To Be Alive" by Matthew Scott Donnelly, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2014.
“On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.”

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