Bob Evans Quotes & Sayings

Re: Central Park
But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed. — Rafael Yglesias

An entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle. — Slavoj Zizek

People who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for. — Dave Matthes

Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have. — Gil Evans

Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane. — Lenny Breau

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table. — Elsa Maxwell

Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well ... They never used superlatives at Liverpool. — Paul Jewell

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader. — Stewart O'Nan

I wouldn't mind doing my own film on the big screen. That'd be cool. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer. — Barry Marshall

If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze. — Mikhail Naimy