"Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you."

-- Parker J. Palmer

“I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.”
“I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.”
“My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.”
“What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.”
“Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2040, Delphi Classics
“When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.”

Source : "U.S. surveillance architecture includes collection of revealing Internet, phone metadata" by Barton Gellman, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2013.
“It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.”

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