"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat."

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Source : Song: The Year Of The Cat

Al Stewart

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Travel Quotes

“If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?”
“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”
“A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.”
“I listened to my first comedy album in 6th grade. It was Bill Cosby. My brother and I would play it over and over on a Fisher Price record player. A friend in high school also introduced me to Richard Pryor. I wasn't writing material back then, but I would say funny stuff. I was good at making fun of people's moms. If I knew something personal about you, it would be used against you.”
“Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.”
“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time”
“I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.”
“We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.”

Source : Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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