"Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven."

-- Joaquin Miller

#Wall Quotes #Moon Quotes #Purple Quotes

“Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable”
“To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.”
“When I'm working on something and I get to the point where I feel it getting interesting, that's my reward.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in 'Sugar Money,' no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.”

Source : "Rocking Runner-Up Bo Bice Wants To Show What He's Really About". Interview with Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. May 25, 2005.
“That's how it all started, when I met my wife. My music career, even though I started when I was 16, it never really started till I was like 30, when I started singing and writing my own songs, and that's when it really took off. But prior to that, I was just doing a bunch of covers.”

Source : Source: www.hamptons.com
“If you see yourself as trying to beat the mountain, eventually the mountain will win. You don't conquer mountains, you cooperate with them.”
“I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.”
“It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.”

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