No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.
Greil Marcus
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.
It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it.
Aristotle
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
Stanley Marcus
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Maria
A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Garrett Marino
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson
You win not by chance, but by preparation.
Roger Maris
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
Jane Austen
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
William Markiewicz
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.
Dame Alice Markova
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Christopher Marlowe
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Leo Tolstoy
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.
Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends.
Steve Maraboli
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Everyone has their own idea of the perfect partner, but they usually do not consider what it is they have to offer one.
Stephen Richards
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.
C.S. Lewis
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