"If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it."

-- Fats Waller

#Music Quotes #Mess Quotes

“Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.226
“What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?”
“The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.”
“They first condemn that first advised the ill.”
“Words of the world are the life of the world.”
“I couldn't hit an elephant's ***** with a bull fiddle.”
“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”
“Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.”

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