Basie Center Quotes & Sayings

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977. — Anita Hill

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay — Marcia Carrington

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!' — Paul Scheer

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real. — Jim Balsillie

I try to phrase criticism in the nicest possible way, but I also never lie. If people ask, I assume it's because they want to know. People are not dumb about these things; they can tell when a compliment isn't sincere. — Tim Gunn

I admire answers to which no answers can be made. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The research is the most interesting part ... That's how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I've come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I'm after. — Martin Cruz Smith

When is there a boy, even in these materialistic times, to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? Maybe it is the primitive instinct, anyway it is there. With that key a great door may be unlocked, if it is only to admit fresh air and sunshine into lives that were otherwise grey.
The heroes of the wild, the frontiersmen and explorers, the rovers of the seas, the airmen of the clouds, are pied pipers to the boys. Where they lead the boys will follow and these will dance to their tune when it sings the song of manliness and pluck, of adventure and high endeavors of efficiency and skill, of cheerful sacrifice of self for others. There's meat in this for the boy. There's soul in it. — Baden-Powell Robert Baden-Powell