"I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current."

-- K. D. Lang

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Play Quotes

“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”

Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage
“There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes”

Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.8, Crown/Archetype
“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'”
“The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.”
“Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.”
“If somebody responds positively to what I'm doing - if there is a connection - that can be very meaningful. If someone reacts with displeasure, confusion, hostility, well, that is not pleasant, and can often be upsetting.”
“Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.”
“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.”

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