"If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is."

-- Paco Ignacio Taibo II

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.126
“When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.”
“I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.”
“You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.”
“I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.”
“I always tell my three daughters, it's not about the number on the scale, it's how you feel. You know you are going to feel better if you eat healthier.”
“I write [music] as a sow piddles.”
“Money is not a fund of knowledge.”

Source : "John W. Kluge, 95, RIP. Entrepreneur, Benefactor to Columbia University" by Dave Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.

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