"When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight."

-- Hildegard of Bingen

#Stupid Quotes #Flippant Quotes #Calm Quotes

“My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.”

Source : "Nick Cave Sings the Blues". Interview with Brian Orloff, www.rollingstone.com. October 22, 2004.
“There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.”
“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;â€”it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
“My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.”
“Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.”
“River gonna take me, Sing me sweet and sleepy, Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home, It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home”

Source : Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.”

You may also like: