Clerks Quote by William Christopher Handy

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it…

— Cameron Mackintosh

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

— Helen Garner

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest…

— Edward Jenner

Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my…

— James Joyce

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into…

— Janet Evanovich

I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling…

— Al Jarreau

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

— Tom T. Hall

As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters…

— Peace Pilgrim

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a…

— Thom Yorke