"To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world."

-- Gustav Mahler

#Writing Quotes #Symphony Quotes #World Quotes

“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.”
“A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.”

Source : Shirley Boone (1972). “ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION”
“I have a playlist of farts on my phone.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 27, 2014
“A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!”
“She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.”
“There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.”

Source : "Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2006.
“He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.”
“The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”

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