"It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to."

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Alex Grey

#Trying Quotes #Alive Quotes #Granted Quotes

“What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to shew even visible displeasure, if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths."”

Source : "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson".
“I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else.”
“My iPod rumbles again. It's not actually an iPod. It doesn't play any music and the earbuds are just for show. It's a gadget that Sandor put together in his lab. It's my Mogadorian detector. I call it my iMog.”
“I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.”
“During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.”
“Have hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow - No night but hath its morn.”
“How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.”

Source : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
“There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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