"There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic."

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W. S. Gilbert

#Fascination Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.”
“The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive”

Source : Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.10, Diderot Publishing
“To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.”
“Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa. A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.”

Source : Sarah MacLean (2012). “Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart: Number 3 in series”, p.3, Hachette UK
“I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.”
“When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.”
“The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.”

Source : 1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

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