"My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath."

-- Quincy Jones

#Home Quotes #Wine Quotes #Gun Quotes

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
“The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.”
“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?”
“I get by with a little help from my friends.”
“Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”

Source : Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.41, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.”
“I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.”

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