Bassline Samples Quotes & Sayings

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. — James A. Baldwin

Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes. — Cristina Saralegui

It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind. — Camilla Gibb

Men have always wanted to have sex with as many fertile young women as possible. It's part of a man's basic programming. That hasn't changed. Civilization is nothing more than an artificial and very thin veneer hiding our deep-seated primitive urges. — Oliver Markus

Desrochers and Shimizu (Chapter 5) identify several shortcomings in Carson's Silent Spring that stem from major omissions. These include her silence on the benefits of chemical pesticides, such as higher agricultural production - which reduced hunger in a world of chronic starvation and limited the loss of wildlife habitat. Another flaw is her reliance on anecdotes rather than systematic analysis of available information. But perhaps the book's biggest failing is its discussion of cancer. — Roger E. Meiners

The homemade pie has been under siege for a century, and surely its survival is endangered. — Janet Clarkson

The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams. — Vin Diesel

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palaeozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime. — Langdon Smith