"H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway -- you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective."

-- Howard Waldrop

#Summer Quotes #Senior Quotes #Jobs Quotes

“A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.412, Open Road Media
“Women are damn resilient.”
“Iâ€™ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.”
“I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.”
“With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.”
“A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.”
“Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.”
“Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.”

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