Bluesmen Legends Quotes & Sayings

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push. — Mary Hunter Austin

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart. — Voltaire

If only at school, geography teachers, surely the most scoffed and pilloried class of pedagogue there is, if only they had concentrated less on rift valleys, trig points and the major exports of Indonesia and more on the fact that geography could promise a classy royal society with the sexiest lecture theatre in the land. — Stephen Fry

Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction. — Helen McCloy

I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant
to Radiate Life! — Elbert Hubbard

The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Man is never mightier than his Maker. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you were writing poetry it was somewhat safer to be a woman than a man. — Alice Munro

The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent. — William Watson

And that was the end of Smaug — J.R.R. Tolkien

Bill, don't look at me - I'm 'ideous. — J.K. Rowling

Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola. — Alexa Chung

There are two important trees in the Garden of Eden: the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. We chose the wrong one. The fruit of the Tree of Life would have given us immortality. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge informed us that we were nude, which, as knowledge goes, is pretty low down the list of amazing facts. — Mark Forsyth

I understand that sometimes awful things happen in life, through no fault of our own. I also know that sometimes really amazing, wonderful things happen too. The trick is to focus on the good things and learn to live with the bad. — E. Kelly

You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over. — Cynthia Lewis