"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."

-- Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom Quotes #Failure Quotes #Passion Quotes

“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

Source : Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing
“I have the time needed to support the album and tour.”
“There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.”
“You anticipate what I would say, though you cannot know how earnestly I say it, how earnestly I feel it, without knowing my secret heart, and the hopes and fears and anxieties with which it has long been laden. Dear Doctor Manette, I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.”
“Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.”

Source : "Ed Asner on crotchety roles from Lou Grant to Up". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 3, 2012.
“You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.”
“Grand telegraphic discovery today â€¦ Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish â€¦ the â€œtimbreâ€ of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.”
“I'm afraid. I know L. I don't want you to get hurt. I won't. What if you do. I'll wait for you. Even if I'm dark? Even if you're very very dark.”

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