"Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry."

-- William Cowper

#Missing Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Tales Quotes

“The goal in life is to discover that youâ€™ve always been where you were supposed to be.”
“Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.”
“It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.”
“Skating is what got me into punk rock.”

Source : "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.
“I'm just enjoying the ride. I'm just contributing what I can.”
“remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.”

Source : Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.26, Penguin UK
“You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.”

Source : "Earning a rep". Sports Illustrated, October 25, 2003.
“I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.”

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