"It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life."

-- Laurie Colwin

#Party Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
“In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.”

Source : "Masters 2012: the final day - as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 08, 2012.
“...I got a call from a record company offering me a contract, I did not want to take it because the Lord had pointed me in the direction of spiritual activity...And then it was disclosed to me that I could do both spiritual and musical work. So for five years I executed that contract, and when it was finished, after I made the album Transfiguration, I didn't make another album until twenty-six years later. This new album, Translinear Light, came out of the pleading and constant appealing from my son Ravi Coltrane: 'Ma, please make a CD.' So I eventually agreed.”
“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”
“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.”

Source : "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.
“The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'”
“This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.”
“To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.”

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