"I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information."

-- Richard Francis Burton

#Book Quotes #Son Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.”
“The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.”

Source : Corinne Heline (1965). “Music: the keynote of human evolution”
“The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.”

Source : c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.
“To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually.”
“Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.131, Delacorte Press
“I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.”

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