Bibelots Crossword Quotes & Sayings

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Those that want to play traditional jazz and have no interests in the ideas of improvisation. So in spit of the fact that there are fifty violin players, you might only narrow it down to ten and within those ten, there might only be three who have the right kind of background and credentials to deal with what you need to deal with. Everybody's got their own special thing that they are after and a lot of times you don't have time to be training people. — Henry Threadgill

Descartes, for instance, in order to preserve the idea of free will, asserted that the human mind was something different from the physical world and did not follow its laws. In his view a person consists of two ingredients, a body and a soul. Bodies are nothing but ordinary machines, but the soul is not subject to scientific law. — Stephen Hawking

I believe the objective of coaching is winning with integrity. — Pete Carril

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it. — Henry Ward Beecher

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough. — Thurgood Marshall

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time. — Mitchell Hurwitz

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. — Cynthia Ozick

Have we found out about those losers yet? — Evelyn Smith

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm. — Siri Hustvedt

Speed isn't everything; you gotta look cool on the touge too. — Keiichi Tsuchiya

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks. — G.K. Chesterton

The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action. — Debasish Mridha

Men readily listen" to Utopias, "and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when someone is heard denouncing the evils now existing, ... which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, arise from quite another source - the wickedness of human nature. — Will Durant

I don't believe in failure. I'm perseverant - I believe in failing. — Bauvard