Basford World Quotes & Sayings

I was being ridiculed for going to school ... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene ... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques. — Donald Byrd

I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is. — Taizan Maezumi

A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are going to live forever through your work, in your books, in the hearts of your readers, in your characters. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

To eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world, — Oscar Wilde

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't. — Jack Nicholson

It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up. — Mary Pickford

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing. — Tim Hetherington

Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun. — Nicholas Of Cusa

Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. — Gary Bettman