"So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it."

-- Billie Holiday

#Mom Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Believe Quotes

“It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.”
“There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”
“Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.”

Source : Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.370, Pan Macmillan
“I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and abused by my parents. I hated life in Utah. I resented the Mormon Church, its sense of superiority and its certitude. I escaped through the Beat writers and discovered poetry and have devoted my entire life to the practice of poetry in varying ways. Poetry gave me a reason for being. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made.”
“In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.”
“I still get butterflies when England are playing.”
“I live my life like everyday is my last.”

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