"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Interesting Quotes #Literature Quotes #Doing Nothing Quotes

“Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.”
“Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul,”
“There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.”
“Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.”
“Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.”
“The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.”
“I know a lot of great musicians that don't know they're even great, because mangers try and make them feel belittled like they're not worth a crap.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Jim “Dandy” Mangrum Southern Rock Pioneer with Black Oak Arkansas". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. December 5, 2012.
“I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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