Some of the guys I played with .. didn’t go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means.
BENNY GOODMANIn the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.
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The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.
KATHLEEN WINSOR -
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant ‘centers of resort’.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN -
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
BOBBY HULL -
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN -
I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that’s always been my mindset.
TRAVIS SCOTT -
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
WINSTON CHURCHILL -
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
RICHARD DAWKINS -
I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I’m going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn’t really hold a candle, I’m going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.
DARYL HANNAH -
I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL -
For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball.
MAGIC JOHNSON -
Manmohan Singh, during his tenure as Prime Minister, said that Muslims have first right over the resources of this country. Where will the Dalits, backward, women, tribal, and others go?
YOGI ADITYANATH -
Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.
CAROLINE MYSS -
I want love to be my sanctuary. The place I dwell when I am weak.
A. DIMITRI -
Love is magic, love is tragic. It is the air we breathe and the poison we drink.
JUANA GARCIA -
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCER -
This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation
BILLY COLLINS -
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
BANKSY -
I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. ‘The Dreamers’ was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI -
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
E. M. FORSTER -
Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.
ADEL AL-JUBEIR -
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
ROLLO MAY -
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit.
ALAN COREN -
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI -
The young people have a phrase for this now, which is “slay in your lane.” That’s a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
ZADIE SMITH