Mung Daal Quotes & Sayings

The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails. And this is happening to the world, and I think it is very very dangerous for our future generations, those of us who believe that the world is not only necessary to us in its pristine state, but it is in itself an act of some kind of spiritual thing. I said once, and I think this is true, the world did not have to be beautiful to work. But it is. What does that mean?
[from 'A Thousand Mornings' With Poet Mary Oliver for NPR Books] — Mary Oliver

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter. — Ahmet Ertegun

It is commonly a weak man who marries for love. — Samuel Johnson

It would not be necessary to make an affirmation more than once if one had perfect faith. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I'll get mobbed by literally 40 school girls. It's like being a full fledged star, and that's surreal. — Penn Dayton Badgley

I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am. — Kobe Bryant