"For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up."

-- Delia Ephron

#Want Quotes #What You Want Quotes

“The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.”

Source : Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.217
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
“Goals are just dreams with deadlines.”
“I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.”
“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.”

Source : Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)
“The unifying thread through all these different aspects of music business is just my attraction toward working with sounds and designing new scary, evil, dark sounds.”

Source : "Nine Inch Nails' Charlie Clouser makes American Horror Story and Saw sound creepy". Interview With Alex McLevy, www.avclub.com. July 2, 2016.
“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this-or more accurately, because of this-his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz-at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.”

Source : "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.
“Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.”

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