"The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest."

-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#Wise Quotes #Practice Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.”
“Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.”

Source : "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Will S.Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“You can't judge the many by the actions of the few.”

Source : Michael Buckley (2007). “The Sisters Grimm: The unusual suspects”
“Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.”

Source : 'Cargoes' (1903)
“It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.”

Source : "Jazz Professional", Interview, 1966.
“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source : Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.”
“I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.”

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