"For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M."

-- Michael Stipe

#Fall Quotes #Vision Quotes #Faces Quotes

“And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.”
“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”
“Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I spend time looking at her work when I'm writing. I feel like we're working toward the same themes, and I see our work in conversation, whether we know it or not.”
“Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at raising international awareness, the better off we've been at realizing solutions to our own problems.”
“A thoughtful investment process contemplates both probability and payoffs and carefully considers where the consensus - as revealed by a price - may be wrong. Even though there are also some important features that make investing different than, say, a casino or the track, the basic idea is the same: you want the positive expected value on your side”
“Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?”
“That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.”

Source : "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.
“We are the ancestors of the future and what we do now will have an impact.”

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