"Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read."

-- Maria Semple

#Book Quotes #Rude Quotes #Might Quotes

“Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs ...”
“Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.”
“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”
“Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.”
“I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.”
“The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.”

Source : "Wisdom and Wonder: Common Grace in Science and Art".
“When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.”

Source : Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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