quotes about I Am Grateful

“... governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting ...”

“I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.”

“Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.”

Source : Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.90, Crown Archetype

“I try my best for everything. If I don't feel happy, I don't do it.”

“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”

“Who you were is not who you are. Who you are, is what you will be.”

“Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.”

“I go four- wheeling in my truck. I also like to fish, cook, do stuff around my house. I even studied fencing for awhile.”

“We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."”