"every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns"

-- Billy Joel

#Life Quotes #Relationship Quotes #Rose Quotes

“Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.”

Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the Gospel to every creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakespeare, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“I never hang my feet off the end of the bed -I'm afraid little gremlins will bite my toes! Really!”
“Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~”
“Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?”
“Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.”

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