"I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution."

-- Jim Butcher

#Thinking Quotes #Involuntary Quotes #Contribution Quotes

“I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.”
“Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.”
“People could be built far greater in the Lord and be more wonderfully established if they would move out sometimes and think over the graces of the Lord.”
“My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'”
“Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.”

Source : Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher
“Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.”
“One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.”

Source : "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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