"True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature."

-- Francis James Child

#Spontaneity Quotes #Spontaneous Quotes #Ballads Quotes

“From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.”
“Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.”
“The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.”
“Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.”

Source : Christopher Brookmyre (2012). “Not the End of the World”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“True liars never love. True lovers never lie.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 5, 2011
“I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely mimicking the survival traits that my mother possessed. And I came to learn very quickly that language was a powerful, powerful tool.”
“Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by JoÃ£o Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.”

You may also like:

Charles Eliot Norton
Author
Ewan MacColl
Singer