Spurias Ashburnham Quotes & Sayings

For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really. — Gareth Hock

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory. — Alan Parsons

Go where the growth is. — Robin Lake

The human phenomenon is but the sum
Of densely coiled layers of illusion
Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity
That there are persons of any kind
When all there can be is mindless mirrors
Laughing and screaming as they parade about
in an endless dream
— Thomas Ligotti

Whether or not he still wanted me, I knew he wouldn't want anyone else to have me. — Penelope Douglas

We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. — Charles De Gaulle

A story has come down about Rumi: a woman asks if he would say something to her young boy about his eating too much of a particular kind of white-sugar candy. Rumi tells her to come back in two weeks. She does, and he tells her again to come in two weeks. She does, and he advises the child to cut down on sweets.
"Why did you not say this a month ago?"
"Because I had to see if I could resist having that candy for two weeks. I couldn't. Then I tried again and was successful. Only now can I tell him to try not to have so much. — Coleman Barks