"I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing."

-- Brandon Boyd

#Writing Quotes #Expression Quotes #Listening Quotes

“I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.”

Source : "Bill Shorten faces 'difficult' royal commission questioning over political staffer's salary". Interview with Adam Harvey, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2015.
“I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.”
“When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.”
“I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.”
“I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors......I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time.”
“Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.”
“We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.”

Source : John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction
“My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.”

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