"America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Careers Quotes #America Quotes #Age Quotes

“Ive been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.”
“I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.”
“I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.”
“memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.”
“There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.”
“There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck. "Are you speaking literally or metaphorically?”

Source : Jenna Black (2016). “Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.”
“To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.”

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