Claude Thornhill Quotes & Sayings

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing. — Lin Yutang

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show. — Scotty Moore

Few scientists now dispute that today's soaring levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere will cause global temperature averages to rise by as much as nine degrees Fahrenheit sometime after the year 2000. — Carl Sagan

[A]pparently, it's okay to WORK as a waitress but not to BE a waitress. — Deb Caletti

Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour. — Matthew Henry

My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard. — Bill Crow

I felt freed to please myself, to find my way as I would, in a world that was much vaster than I had realized before, in which I was but one star-gleam, one wavelet, among multitudes. My happiness mattered not a whit more than the next person's - or the next fish's, or the next grass-blade's! - and not a whit less. — Margo Lanagan

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients. — Ice Cube

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe