"Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)"

-- Radclyffe Hall

#Black Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I have always loved you.”
“Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.”

Source : Eric Greitens (2012). “The Warrior's Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too...”
“I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.”
“Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world”
“It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?”
“I love a lot of old disco because it's aerodynamic, smooth, and very seductive.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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