Charles Francis Adams, Sr. Quotes
It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld
The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
Rachel Boston
I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
Kate Voegele
I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
Gary Neville
Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.
K. Flay
I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
Cameron Diaz
There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
M. John Harrison
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
Bob Uecker
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.
Camilla Gibb
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell
It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
