29306 Quotes & Sayings

Of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong. — G.K. Chesterton

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues — Ray Davies

Guess who's fifteen minutes early to pick up Pax? This guy. I'm kinda proud of myself. — Kim Holden

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so ... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. — Robertson Davies

When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much - sometimes ten times as much - as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory. — T.R. Reid

Reputation is what people think we are; character is what God and the holy angels know we are. — Warren W. Wiersbe

The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did. — Benmont Tench

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often. — George Bernard Shaw

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. — Jim Morrison

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy. — John Cleese

You know, Balzac once described bureaucracy as a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." "What'd your buddy Balzac have to say about inadmissible evidence?" "Not a lot. I think he considered the subject beneath him. — Craig Johnson