"We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations."

-- Charles Lamb

#Sight Quotes #Shy Quotes #Monkeys Quotes

“If you work on anything long enough hopefully you’ll get better and I feel like we’re just growing.”

Source : "Chosen One: Sharon Van Etten". Interview with Mark Carry, fracturedair.com. February 11, 2015.
“Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.”
“Blitz chess kills your ideas.”
“North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.”
“The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.”
“And even though we don't have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers.”
“The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.”

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