"I don't know what I am thinking. But I am alone. I am trapped in the net of the room. In the net of humans. I think maybe I am drowning in the net of humans."

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Source : Karen Hesse (2004). “The Music of Dolphins”, p.110, Oxford University Press, USA

Karen Hesse

#Thinking Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Drowning Quotes

“I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.”
“An excellent angler, and now with God.”
“As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.”

Source : Press Conference In EMQ, Kedron, statements.qld.gov.au. January 13, 2011.
“I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.”

Source : "A Man Called (Self) Destruction — The Life and Music of Alex Chilton" by Binky Philips, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.
“A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.”
“Whenever there is a conflict between precept and example, the latter wins because deeds speak louder than our words.”
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, . . . [then] they fall down the curtains.”
“I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.”

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