"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!"

-- Miles Davis

#Music Quotes #Understood Quotes

“If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, Grove Press
“I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.”

Source : "Slate: David Plotz Discusses 'Good Book' and What He Learned Blogging the Bible". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2009.
“Always" is a good word to believe in.”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.231, Bloomsbury Publishing
“On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.”
“All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.”
“I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.”
“When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.”
“Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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