quotes about Midas

“So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.”

“Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.”

“The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.”

Source : Yosa Buson, “The End Of Spring”

“With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.”

“I don't remember titles of books or authors from when I was young. I remember the title of only one book, which was 'The Timber Toes.' I remember it was a family of little wooden people who lived in the woods, and for some reason that stayed with me.”

“Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health”

“I've come to the conclusion that athletes, when they say they miss the crowd, are not missing the sound of the crowd. What they're missing is the feeling inside that makes the crowd roar. It's not the roar of the crowd, it's the silence inside.”

“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”

“The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.”

“We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.”