"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte
The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause
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John Cooper Clarke showed up as (usually unannounced) support at practically all the gigs I attended… you know… back then. Or at least that’s how I remember it. Everything about his ‘angry coathanger’ on-stage persona led me to believe that he’d be a pretty prickly guest on Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday show a couple of weeks ago but when it came to it he was happy and open-minded, full of praise for younger artists and obviously still learning, still working. Really inspiring. Here’s the interview:
John Cooper Clarke talks to Jarvis Cocker
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Over 25 years since Diamond Life was issued! Where have the years gone?
Now a new ‘lounge’ bossanova album Soldier of Love ♣ from Ms Adu. Is it any good? Yes. Is it great? Probably not. Let’s wait and see but whatever and despite the rather tinny drum sound on MP3 it is a marker in time for some.
Most importantly for me, at a bloody big crossroads in my life, it is (perhaps) a successor to and reminder of the soundtrack of Meribel, Sardinia, the Wag, Ronnie Scott’s, Sutherland, oil-rigs, India, Spain, love and nest-building … [
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“The honest heart that’s free frae a’ intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba’, Has ay some cause to smile.”
You would have thought that people would have had enough of silly love songs, they haven’t and the song remains the same. Some good some bad and some that have meanings that seem to change with us as we grow older and others that we get bang on the first time we ever hear them.
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Well then I’ll sail this ship alone I’ll sail this ship alone Between the pain and the pleasure I’ll sail this ship alone Amongst the sharks and the treasure
Location:Morborne,United Kingdom
Oh! it’s a good day, for singin’ a song,
An’ it’s a good day for movin’ along,
Yes, it’s a good day, how could anything go wrong?
A good day from mornin’ ’till night!
Yes it’s a good day, ( it’s a lovely day for shinin’ ) for shinin’ your shoes
An’ it’s a good day ( if you wan’ a silver linin’ ) for losin’ the blues
( you got . . . ) everything t’ gain ( everythin’ t’ gain and nuthin’ ) and nuthin’ t’ lose,
‘cuz it’s a good day from mornin’ to night! ( you’re right! ) article foreshortened, click for more » It’s a good day …. →
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a f**king big television Choose washing-machines, cars, compact-disc players, and electrical tin-openers. Choose good-health, low-cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter-home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure-wear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire-purchase in a range of f**king fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game-shows stuffing f**king junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home [
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If you find me I’ll be sitting by the water fountain Picket signs, letdowns, meltdown on Monday morning But it’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright It’s alright Cause in no time, they’ll be gone, I guess I’ll still be standing here
It’s a new year, I’m glad to be here It’s a fresh spring, so let’s sing In 2080 I’ll surely be dead So don’t look ahead, ever look ahead
and the moon shines bright on the water tonight so we won’t drown in the summer sound
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“Into each life some rain must fall But too much is falling in mine Into each heart some tears must fall But some day the sun will shine Some folks can lose the blues in their hearts But when I think of you another shower starts Into each life some rain must fall But too much is falling in mine”
I’m through with standin’ in lines to clubs I’ll never get in It’s like the bottom of the ninth and I’m never gonna win This life hasn’t turned out Quite the way I want it to be
“’cause if you’re not really here then the stars don’t even matter now I’m filled to the top with fear but it’s all just a bunch of matter ’cause if you’re not really here then I don’t want to be either”
Astonishing song really in this day and age, a pop song that is really a modern religious hymn that would be worthy of notice by Isaac Watts for its simple and direct themes.
Words of nuance, words of skill And words of romance are a thrill Words are stupid, words are fun Words can put you on the run [LINK]
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Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes.
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile.
Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit
"Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
heavy words thrown lightly
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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