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| c114b49 | Michael applied himself better than I did at school. His thirst for knowledge was far greater than any of the rest of us. He was that curious kid who asked, 'Why? Why? Why?' and he listened to and logged every detail. I'm sure his head had an in-built recording chip for data, facts, figures, lyrics and dance moves. | Jermaine Jackson | ||
| eab04cd | Music is color blind. | Michael Jackson | ||
| 6167e05 | Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch. | advertisement album alliterations amit-kalantri amit-kalantri-quotes amit-kalantri-writer artist background-music background-score band book-writing catch-lines catchphrases characters concert creative-writing drums essay guitar inspirational instruments knowledge melody michael-jackson motivational movie movie-dialogue movies music music-director music-industry music-quotes musicians novel-writing philosophy playing pop proverbs public-speaking quotes rhetoric rock script script-writing scriptwriting singer singing song soul sound speech speechwriting story tag-lines touch tune vocal wisdom writing | Amit Kalantri | |
| eef0ad0 | Happiness is wanting what you have. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 778894e | The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 112efc9 | When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. | honesty liars truth | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 3c4b614 | When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition of life." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 4556c41 | This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. | creed custom power spirituality | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 61b72c4 | The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason. | marriage | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 0c8a80e | We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live,.. | fanatic irrationality secularism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 11487cb | Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You did not make it. You did not light it. Better men than you, men who could believe and obey, twisted the entrails of iron and preserved the legend of fire. There is not a street you walk on, there is not a thread you wear, that was not made as this lantern was, by denying your philosophy of dirt and rats. You can make nothing.. | mystery | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 55f71dd | He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| d788ba6 | How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them. | dark-ages ignorance | G.K. Chesterton | |
| b77bf7a | Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e250ebe | It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden. | comets cruel-colors earthquakes garden night poets respectable | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 19dbd49 | Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death. | right | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8eaca72 | But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt realism and objectivity of innocence. Or if we cannot do that, we must try at least to shake off the cloud of mere custom and see the thing as new, if only by seeing it as unnatural. Things that may well be familiar so long as familiarity breeds affection had much better become unfamiliar when familiarity breeds contemp.. | novelty | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 53eab4b | Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the thing that I felt in that jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wish.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 56b699b | An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not b.. | evolution | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 6df4fe0 | And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9653499 | He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic," he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly. He had put salt in it." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9a02b18 | It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be as prosaic as your poetry. The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Ba.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| dd8d6a0 | Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 024c54f | Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth? | gratitude | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 069cf3d | A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate. | capitalism commerce goods property theft | G.K. Chesterton | |
| be611df | If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord." | mysticism sovereignty-of-god | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 9303e29 | The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. | humour teleology | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 45dde84 | A] permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e8c3cd8 | The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic. | humor humour language seriousness | G.K. Chesterton | |
| ea8c8a2 | The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters' food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 6ba9abf | Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we enjoy in Middlemarch is the interplay between what the characters do and what we know about them because of the telling voice. It's less of a problem for the cinema when it deals with novels that are purely concerned with action and what people do. I haven't thought this through, and I'm just trying it now to see what it so.. | Philip Pullman | ||
| e3bdb30 | Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates. | Lauren Willig | ||
| dfe7387 | Tomorrow night, if I come back, there'll be kisses. Lovely ones, Frank. Not drunken kisses. Kisses with dreams in them. Kisses that come from life, not death. | James M. Cain | ||
| 0812326 | A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you. | James M. Cain | ||
| 1638b87 | We shall live with what is, and hope that one of us is clever enough to think of something better. What else can we do? | Diane Haeger | ||
| 96407d7 | Tools amplify your talent. The better your tools, and the better you know how to use them, the more productive you can be. | Andrew Hunt | ||
| 855cc19 | When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...] | dragon fate-s-edge ilona-andrews pride the-edge | Ilona Andrews | |
| 179730a | You like the girl," Alasdair offered. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| cb4eeb1 | Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant." | the-law | Ilona Andrews | |
| a68e113 | If she died as a result of this journey, it wouldn't be because of slavers. It would be because Richard's inability to communicate would give her a heart attack. | communication richard | Ilona Andrews | |
| de32677 | I held my hand out. "Give me a grenade." Andrea pulled open her backpack and slid a grenade into my palm. "Wait until they start shooting the Jeep. Boom comes first, shrapnel flies second. Count to ten before you run in there. And don't blow the device up." "Yes, Mother. It's not my first time." "That's the thanks I get for trying to keep you alive, Your Highness." | grenade kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| a6004f6 | After I chased the werewolf and the vampire out of my office, I changed my clothes. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 14f94b1 | One day you'll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I'm telling you now, it's got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn't care if you live or die. Your wife does. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 7286426 | I'm a bastard but even I don't kill my own people, unless it's absolutely necessary. | Ilona Andrews |