Avelyn Brown Quotes & Sayings

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists. — Colin R. Davis

The task of government was not to stop selfish striving - a hopeless task - but to harness it for the public good. — Ron Chernow

As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist. — Jill Sobule

Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural state - to celebrate - as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state. — Rajneesh

Men feared witches and burned women. — Louis D. Brandeis

What you think you become. — Gautama Buddha

To say that you believe in free speech 'but' is not simply to qualify your support, but to dissolve it altogether. Free speech is not something you can sort-of believe in on a scale of 1 to 10. — Mick Hume

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. — Alexei Sayle

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system. — John Elway

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself. — Allan Bloom

Come quickly with me.
Inhale the divine that swoops
from nostril to blunted throat
then sneaks past guarded doors
into the hallway of your heart
where the lamplight grows. — Merle Nudelman

Many Saturday mornings, I take 495 from Fairfax to Maryland in the morning, and I'm astonished by the speed of many of the drivers. Even when I drive 70 mph, I'm being passed by people driving 80-90+ at times. — Robert James Thomson