"I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again."

-- John Lee Hooker

#Pick Me Up Quotes #Splits Quotes #Memphis Quotes

“Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.”
“Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind”
“Recently I've been looking for something new. The past few projects I've worked on, I keep getting cast as the asshole. I promise I'm a nice guy and not the ***** that everyone keeps seeing.”
“It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.”

Source : William Lyon Mackenzie King, John English, John O. Stubbs (1977). “Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate”
“They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.”
“Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.”
“Love is an act of faith.”
“New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”

Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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