Andy Lou Quotes & Sayings

During the years I was with Andy Kirk we starved almost. I remember not eating for practically a month several times. But we were very, very happy because the music was so interesting, and you forgot to eat, anyway. — Mary Lou Williams

Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you'll ask, 'Why are bats furry? — Kelley Armstrong

We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan," he'd said. — Libba Bray

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny. — Trevor Moore

Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska. — John Green

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. — Sarah Dessen

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. — Foxy Brown

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure. — Bertrand Russell

When Tony lost it, it would be up to Ruger to take Lady Death by the tits and giver a good tweak. That's how he saw it. Give Lady Death's tits a good tweak. — Jonathan Maberry

To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow's business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work. — Charlie Munger

I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that. — Lou Reed

People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form. — Wylie Dufresne

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists. — Ivan Turgenev

then reached over with his left hand and lifted Andy's gun from its — Lou Bradshaw

I heard my first laughter on stage, when I was about 10 years old. It was gold pantomime and I remember I was playing Baron Fitznoodle, who was the father of the ugly sisters in "Cinderella." And I walked on and got a great big laugh and I thought that was fantastic, until I looked down and found that my flies were open. And so I always check my flies. I even check my flies on radio. — Michael Caine

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging. — Gene Tunney

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane ... — Vladimir Nabokov

If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae. — Philip Plait