Circumstances Quote by Quincy Jones

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

— Andrew Bird

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and…

— Quincy Jones

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of good and…

— J. J. Abrams

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always…

— George Bernard Shaw

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar…

— Criss Jami

“By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.”

— Will Chancellor

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We…

— Quintus Ennius

“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your…

— Dan Chaon

In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is…

— Leon Trotsky

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

— Konrad Lorenz