"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."

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Source : Quoted in Robert J. Buckley, Sir Edward Elgar (1905)

Edward Elgar

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“I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.”
“You can't bring tweezers on an airplane. If I'm on a plane and you try to hijack it with tweezers, I'll whip your ass, man. You think I'm going to be late because you've got tweezers and a bad attitude?”
“This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?”
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.”

Source : "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, ch. 25: "Real Patriots Ask Questions", 1995.
“The ball is round, the game is long.”
“Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.”
“I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.”

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