"Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes."

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Source : Song: (the Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Album: My Aim Is True

Elvis Costello

#Angel Quotes #Wings Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”
“The fact that so many of my friends were stumbling headfirst into their happily-ever-after gave my tired heart hope that I couldn't be far behind.”

Source : Jay Crownover (2014). “Rome (The Marked Men, Book 3)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK
“Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.”
“How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?”
“World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.”
“We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.”
“Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.”
“I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox”

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