"Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion."

-- Robert South

#Reading Quotes #Useless Quotes #Digestion Quotes

“Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.”
“If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.”
“I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.”
“I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.”
“No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing
“If you don't fail, you're not even trying.”
“Iâ€™m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because itâ€™s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre â€“ a bolt of lightning. Itâ€™s fun to get knocked out that way!”

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