"You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry."

-- Jonathan Lethem

#Males Quotes #Female Quotes #Lenses Quotes

“You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.”
“I had been working my first record really hard and toured the heck out of it. I didn't have anything to write about so touring with The Decemberists was what I needed. I could work and take in the world again. You're just the side man and don't need all the info. You're also less busy than when your name is on the ticket, so I had days free to read, watch movies, and just look up.”
“I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Little red wagon, little red bike, I ainâ€™t no monkey but I know what I like.”
“The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.”
“Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.”
“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
“To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.”

Source : "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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