"Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours."

-- Lascelles Abercrombie

#Tired Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Stories Quotes

“How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.”

Source : Source: medium.com
“Books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
“[F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.”
“When a man ends up in the White House who boasts about not having a clue and who says that specialist knowledge is elite nonsense, then a critical point has been reached. Then you will have an obviously irresponsible man sitting in a position that requires the utmost degree of responsibility.”
“MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough”
“Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.”
“I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.”

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