"I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow."

-- Ringo Starr

#Years Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Tunes Quotes

“How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life.”
“We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.”

Source : Bahai lecture; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, pp. 66/67, 1951.
“It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.”
“I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company
“Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.”
“Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.”
“But as the world turns I learned life is Hell / Living in the world, no different from a cell”

Source : "Song: C.R.E.A.M. (Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers))". January 31, 1994.
“Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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