Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach,… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute,… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Jamming - which follows rules but not individual notes - gives you a different result each time, depending upon the players and… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk… — Bob Weir Copy Share Image
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate. — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base. — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves. — Joseph Curiale Copy Share Image
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead. — Don Ellis Copy Share Image
If you owe too much on American Express, and your Diner's Club notes are too hard, take a loan on your Visa,… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its… — Aubrey Thomas de Vere Copy Share Image