"Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue."

-- Judith Martin

#Ignorance Quotes #Skills Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”
“I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song”
“My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.”
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
“I only do private room karaoke where its just me and one of my closest girlfriends. My mom always said I could really belt songs out, and the Dixie Chicks feed that encouragement.”

Source : Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. January 14, 2014.
“Crows follow me wherever I go.”
“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.”
“Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.”

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