"I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much."

-- Stan Getz

#Men Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself.”

Source : "'To be God with God': The Autotheistic Sayings of the Mystics". Book by James A. Wiseman, 1990.
“One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.”

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“People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.”

Source : Nikki Gemmell (2011). “Cleave”, p.132, Pan Macmillan
“Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.”

Source : "The politics of fiction". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.
“The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?' I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.' Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso.”
“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”
“Go with what is. Use what happens.”

Source : Tom Piazza (2009). “Why New Orleans Matters”, p.14, Harper Collins
“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!”

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