"Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit...."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Laughter Quotes #Moon Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.”

Source : John D. MacDonald (1987). “The Long Lavender Look”, Fawcett
“A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.”
“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.”
“When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Democrats in the contrast with Republicans, almost no matter which Republican is nominated. Because they are taking such similar positions.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song â€“ if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say”

Source : Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Part II”
“You're my special angel, sent from up above. The Lord smiled down on me, and sent an angel to love.”

Source : Song: My Special Angel, 1957
“I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.”

Source : "The Survivors: TV on the Radio". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 15, 2011.

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