"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Music Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Italian Quotes

“With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.”

Source : "New Again: Cyndi Lauper". Interview with Gael Love and Glenn O’Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.
“It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.18, Golgotha Press
“I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.”
“Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.”
“Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world”
“It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.”
“There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam. I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything but Jesus Christ, and him crucified, and the principles of his gospel. If, however, there are some things in the strata of the earth indicating there were men before Adam, they were not the ancestors of Adam. Adam was the son of God. . . . He did not come up through an unbroken line of organic evolution. There had to be a fall. 'Adam fell that men might be.' (2 Nephi 2:25.) .”

Source : "Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney".

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