"We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned."

-- Ellen Goodman

#Past Quotes #May Quotes #Heroic Quotes

“It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer...”
“Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.”
“Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage”

Source : Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr
“The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.”
“You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!”

Source : Victor L. Wooten (2008). “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music”, p.33, Penguin
“The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.”
“Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.”
“The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.”

Source : Source: deadline.com

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