Big Daddy Lipscomb Quotes & Sayings

No organist played a Magnificat but the wind in the flue chimney, no choir sang a Nunc Dimittis but the wuthering gulls, yet I fancy the Creator was not displeazed. — David Mitchell

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism. — Edward Bond

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. — Aldous Huxley

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors. — Carter Burwell

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true
not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance. — Jayne Anne Phillips

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real. — Gemma Arterton

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. — Lee Haney

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined. — Thiruman Archunan

If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.
By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. — Toba Beta

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them. — Mario Balotelli

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership. — Steve Case

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is. — Amy Winehouse