"To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again."

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Source : 1928 'Letter fromParis to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love' (translated by Samuel Charteris).

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#Heart Quotes #Humming Quotes #Motor Quotes

“The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that I think I've been able to realize a lot of things that were just ideas. When I was living in New York City, it's such a rat race, it's so competitive and everything is so concrete and in your face all the time. If you're like, "I'm gonna be a writer!" Everybody's like, "Yeah, you and all the other ***** on the subway." There isn't a lot of space for the detached, free-floating movement of the imagination.”
“The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom”
“Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel (1916). “Eternity; World-war Thoughts on Life and Death, Religion, and the Theory of Evolution”
“Donâ€™t discount that part of who he was just because you didnâ€™t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.”
“Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasnâ€™t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?”
“Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments”
“It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The example he gave--and the liar said it really happened--was that once while drinking orange juice, he'd realized he would be dead someday. He wondered if we, his students, had had similar 'realizations.' Is he kidding? I thought. Once I cashed a paycheck and I realized it wasn't enough. Once I had food poisoning, and realized I was trapped inside my body.”
“The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.”

Source : "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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