"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

--

Elizabeth Hardwick

#Reading Quotes #Passion Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.”
“Back in the day, even if they were singing about the same things, each artist was unique. That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's about the artist. A lot of R&B artists have gotten away from being artists and are just chasing after the next hot producer and it all starts to sound the same.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.”
“It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.”
“You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”
“Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims The will is much stronger than the flesh And it only gets stronger when you going through duress Imagination is the factory that makes legends Close your eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans”

Source : "Close Your Eyes". Song by Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu and The Bullitts, April 2011.
“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”
“Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.”

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