"I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this."

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Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

Gillian Welch

#Hey Quotes #Arms Quotes #Kind Quotes

“There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.”
“I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.”
“Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.”
“I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.”
“Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.”
“I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...”

Source : Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.71, Counterpoint Press
“I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and its all here.”

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