"Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door."

-- Ana Gasteyer

#Doors Quotes #Singing Quotes #Able Quotes

“It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.”
“Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.”
“I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.”
“Wickedness is nourished by lust.”
“Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media
“We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn â€” the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 290. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.”
“No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!”

Source : "Fusion Book 1, Enhanced Edition: Integrated Reading and Writing, Book 1". Book by Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer, John Van Rys, Patrick Sebranek (p. 202), January 2014.

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