Taco Macarthur Quotes

#1. The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends. - Author: Bokar Rinpoche

#2. I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers. - Author: Regina Spektor

#3. A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing. - Author: Susanna Clarke

#4. We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds. - Author: Carlos Castaneda

#5. No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for. - Author: Nikolay Semyonov

#6. Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles. - Author: Juliet Marillier

#7. Don't complain about the people that are drawn to you. Maybe if you change your bait, you'll catch a different fish. - Author: Jasmine J. Anderson

#8. There's nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that. - Author: Richard Branson

#9. I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. - Author: Andrew Dost

#10. American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight. - Author: Revilo P. Oliver

#11. I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else. - Author: Catherine Deneuve

#12. Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it - mostly the feel. - Author: Matthew Zapruder