"It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse."

-- Laurie Colwin

#Happiness Quotes #Children Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.”
“Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must have included any role for God.”
“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.”
“It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.”
“It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo", www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.
“I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives,”
“I buy whatever I see, but I tend to not spend money just to spend it.”
“I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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