"Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch."

-- John Jeremiah Sullivan

#Daughter Quotes #Wife Quotes #Watching Tv Quotes

“All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.”
“I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.”
“The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.”
“Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.”
“If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention...”
“We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.”

Source : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
“A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.”

Source : Thomas Watson (2012). “The Holy Eucharist, or, the Mystery of the Lord’s Supper Briefly Explained”, p.82, Puritan Publications
“When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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