"Songs are snapshots of what youâ€™re going through, and mine involve questioning, searching for completion, joy, and truth, and desperation for relief.Â Â Iâ€™m satisfied with my progress as a writer and a human being, and I know Iâ€™m going to get better at both.Â Â There will be times when Iâ€™ll feel like Iâ€™m not improving, and Iâ€™ll get through that."

-- Melissa Ferrick

#Song Quotes #Joy Quotes #Progress Quotes

“And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world.”

Source : Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.
“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”
“It's just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like...the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.”
“Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.”

Source : "Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus on Barack Obama’s slum lord problem, and global warming, Indian style". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. July 2, 2008.
“Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.”
“Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.”
“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”

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