Parthenia Elementary Quotes & Sayings

But for me, if we're talking about romance, cassettes wipe the floor with MP3s. This has nothing to do with superstition, or nostalgia. MP3s buzz straight to your brain. That's part of what I love about them. But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy human bodies. The cassette is full of tape hiss and room tone; it's full of wasted space, unnecessary noise. Compared to the go-go-go rhythm of an MP3, mix tapes are hopelessly inefficient. You go back to a cassette the way a detective sits and pours drinks for the elderly motel clerk who tells stories about the old days
you know you might be somewhat bored, but there might be a clue in there somewhere. And if there isn't, what the hell? It's not a bad time. You know you will waste time. You plan on it. — Rob Sheffield

Writing for somebody else is really fun 'cause I consider myself a songwriter first and foremost. — Kesha

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late. — Aaron Levie

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight. — Rachel Hunter

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written. — Fareed Zakaria

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive. — Berthe Morisot

There was something obscene about a billionaire's being optimistic and aggressive and cunning. — Kurt Vonnegut

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy. — Sumner Redstone

The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall — Sara Coleridge

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows ... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years. — Jeffrey Sachs

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister

If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully
as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. — Edward Abbey