quotes about High Expectations

“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.”

“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”

“Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.”

“I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.”

“Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.”

“In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.”

“It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.”

“It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2010.

“In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.”

“Everybody likes a compliment.”