"In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?"

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Jamaica Kincaid

#Opportunity Quotes #Space Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Get out of your house in the middle of a rainstorm, get soaked in it, and then strip down-to nothing but a smile.”
“The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.”
“The problem you get with most today's drum samples is that when you use them, you sound like everyone else using them.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.”
“A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes heâ€™s finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his sonâ€™s diaper; his hands remember the rifle.”

Source : Anthony Swofford (2008). “Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.”
“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from May 08, 2014

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