Bluesman Redding Quotes & Sayings

I followed the older woman out to the foyer. Taking the stairs, I scanned each painting that lined the walls. I stilled as I found a portrait that could only have been Nathaniel. He looked young and brash, no more than fifteen. His suit was painted in a regal colour, it set off his tanned skin and sky blue eyes.
"Handsome devil was he not?" Bess chuckled. "Or should I say, 'is he not'?"
I fought the urge to blush as I trailed after the housekeeper. — Freedom Matthews

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm gonna give all I've got to giveCross my heart, and I hope to live. — Phil Ochs

- 'twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this: - That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they open their mouths, are such stupid praters, that the hearers cannot help calling them fools, and so incur the judgment denounced in the Gospel. - THEOBALD. — William Shakespeare

You are my centre when I spin away. — Thom Yorke

The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak. — Sheryl Sandberg

Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could
a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's
eyes for an instant? — Henry David Thoreau

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him. — Steven Van Zandt

If either one of you is ever in a situation you're not entirely comfortable with - call me. I don't care what time it is. I don't care who is there or what is going on. You call me and I will come get you. — Mindy McGinnis

The job was invented in order to make things easier for those at the top. — Tom Hodgkinson

The point is, our health-care system is a terrible mess. It's expensive, wasteful, inefficient, unresponsive, and infested with lawyers. Which is why there has been a big push, in some quarters, to place it under the management of...
The federal government.
This is like saying that if your local police department has a corruption problem, the solution is to turn law enforcement over to the Sopranos. — Dave Barry

In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce. [James Madison in the U.S. Constitutional Convention, June 26, 1787. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, ed. Max Farrand (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), 1:422.] — James Madison

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. — Steven Pressfield