Ken Priest

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.”
― Stuart Aken

“A person’s native tongue influences the way he or she perceives music. The same succession of notes may sound different depending on the language the listener learned growing up.”12 As evidence, speakers of tonal languages including Mandarin are more likely than Westerners to have perfect pitch. In one study, 92 percent of Mandarin speakers who began the music lessons at or before the age of five had perfect pitch compared to 8 percent of English speakers with comparable music training.”
― Ken Robinson, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin