"The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror."

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Source : Review of 1408, Salon.com, 2007.

Stephanie Zacharek

#Song Quotes #May Quotes #Radio Quotes

“A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.”

Source : "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 121), 1986.
“That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.”
“Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:â€“ And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”
“I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.”
“Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.”
“Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.”
“I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.”

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