Beiderbecke Tapes Quotes & Sayings

Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death. — William Shakespeare

Only a few of us believe in reality of dreams and actuality of love; but we all devote ourselves to that uncertainty and hesitation. — M.F. Moonzajer

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life. — John Walsh

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space. — Michael Faraday

It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks; literary persons despise the unlettered; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none.
But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking against industry, but you can be sent to Coventry for speaking like a fool. The greatest difficulty with most subjects is to do them well; therefore, please to remember this is an apology. It is certain that much may be judiciously argued in favour of diligence; only there is something to be said against it, and that is what, on the present occasion, I have to say. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should. — Mike Tyson

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed. — James Otis

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it. — Yoko Ono