Quotes
Authors
Alice James

"I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?"

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

Alice James

#Dream Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Reality Quotes

“There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.”
“Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 30, 2013
“The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.”
“We wanted to premiere it in New York, because New York is sort of the home of the Jim Henson Company and it's sort of the tone and flavor, always, of the puppet work that we've done traditionally. And that's what brought us here and now we're here.”
“I donâ€™t know. But itâ€™s my option. I donâ€™t want to leave Chicago. I want to be successful here. I want to help this team, like I always say, be in the pennant raceâ€¦ I donâ€™t want to leave, and I donâ€™t think I will leave.”
“Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.”

Source : "Chicago's Mike Royko, sharp-witted columnist, dies" by Lisa Price, www.cnn.com. April 29, 1997.
“Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.”

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