"In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Race Quotes #Land Quotes #Care Quotes

“The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots...”
“I think that I have come at it backwards in a way because a lot of what I'm doing as a songwriter is not incredibly intentional. There's a moment that happens which creates the song or the actual idea for a song, and then I'm like, "Oh, it's this kind of song."”
“I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.”
“She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.”
“The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.”

Source : William Wetmore Story (1863). “Poems ...”, p.233
“I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.”
“At this particular time, I probably am more comfortable with myself. Just now I'm having a lovely time.”
“The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner”

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