"Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home."

-- Mary Lou Williams

#Mother Quotes #Home Quotes #Night Quotes

“Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.”
“I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.”
“Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.”

Source : "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
“You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part of the lives and the memories of those people in a way that WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 or Windows can never be.”
“When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.”

Source : Andrew Vachss (2001). “Sacrifice”, p.16, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“I definitely want to direct. This is just another learning experience for me, to get a chance to hear the questions and concerns the directors have, some of their fears. It's a team sport. You have to give everybody what they need so they are able to perform at their best.”
“We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 10-11, 1985.
“Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.”

Source : "Elements of Refusal". Book by John Zerzan, 1988.

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