Observances Calendar Quotes

#1. Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Steve Lacy

#2. Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. Time's not a line. It's a circle or a figure eight or a goddamn Slinky. If you can believe that, I don't know why you can't believe that someone might be able to glimpse something farther along the Slinky.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique
our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language
some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

Karen Joy Fowler

#5. Government activities that are for public consumption are eyewash from the citizens.

Dennis Garvin

#6. ...it is a fundamental mistake, in my opinion, to try to abolish the mobility of pastoral man which has been the single most important factor in his successful mastery of a very difficult environment.

David Keith Jones

#7. Don't make your journey toward success a competition - make it a love affair.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The Tinder Box is a great read.

H.J. Walt Walter

#9. Muscovites see clearly but write muddily; the eye grasps but the fingers splay.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#10. They were fed flaky pastries filled with beef and spices, a peppery stew over couscous, breads stuffed with honey and almonds.

Meljean Brook