Cannions Quotes & Sayings

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it. — Horace Silver

All my life, people have been underestimating me. — Hugh Carey

The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragicallyHe has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What is lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints. — Andre Comte-Sponville

I find myself wanting to study his lower abdomen, where the muscles are like stepping stones leading the way down to Mr. Happy. — Kristen Callihan

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever. — John Ridley

Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls. — Tori Amos

My books have all generated controversy. — Helen Fielding

So I've been in a coma for ... how long?"
"A year and a half."
Melancholia's eyes widened. "What? A year and a half? What the hell? — Derek Landy

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine. — A.E. Van Vogt

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence. — Moses Mendelssohn

I cannot abide useless people. — Joss Whedon

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's where they want to go. — Jacques Villeneuve

It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. — G.K. Chesterton

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years. — Ted Turner

Man is a continuum, a totality and a continuity -
so it cannot be that nothing remains! — Pope John Paul II