Avows Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.' — Sharon Draper

What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty. — Peter Shaffer

People need to look at baseball like it has been sent from the heavens, and respect the game. — Johnny Damon

I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul. — Fanny Burney

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band. — Andy Summers

Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied. — John Kenneth Galbraith

[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. — James Madison