Coleman Quotes & Sayings

Sound has no parents. — Ornette Coleman

McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back. — Jerry Coleman

My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job. — Gary Coleman

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career. — Dabney Coleman

I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman. — Mike Krzyzewski

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl — David Coleman

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas. — Monique Coleman

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall. — Jerry Coleman

On this 101st FA Cup Final day, there are just two teams left — David Coleman

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else. — Ornette Coleman

He many not be hurt as much as he really is. — Jerry Coleman

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started. — Jerry Coleman

Music should always be an adventure. — Coleman Hawkins

Courage is one step ahead of fear. — Coleman Young

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating. — Jim Coleman

The ballgame is over ... in this inning. — Jerry Coleman

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over. — Jerry Coleman

We were all born by accident but this wandering caravan
will make camp in perfection
Forget the nonsense categories of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination
You are soul, and you are love, ...
No more questions now as to what it is we're doing here — Coleman Barks

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction. — Sidney Coleman

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand — David Coleman

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool. — Jim Coleman

Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost. — Eliot Coleman

The Gallifreyan balls are my favourite because you can juggle with them! — Jenna Coleman

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school. — Ornette Coleman

If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive. — Sidney Coleman

In West African and Caribbean folklores the role falls to Anansi, a spider who sometimes imparts knowledge or wisdom - and sometimes casts doubt or seeds confusion. Eshu, — Gabriella Coleman

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture. — Coleman Barks

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures. — Jerry Coleman

It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam ... — Shenica N. Coleman

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it. — Ornette Coleman

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will. — Gary Coleman

They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the way Tim looked at her. She remembered her mom's word. "I saw the way he looked at you ... he adores you." Maybe that was it. Tim looked at her on a surface level. He smiled and seemed happy to see her. But When Cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. He didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. To the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul. — Karen Kingsbury

Virtue untested was never virtue at all. — Rebecca Coleman

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series. — Jerry Coleman

Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing. — Gary Coleman

Push yourself out of your comfort zone and see what you are really capable of. — Rowan Coleman

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing. — Cy Coleman

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. — Steve Coleman

Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut. — Jerry Coleman

If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information. — Ornette Coleman

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality. — Ornette Coleman

The real meaning of the word paranoia is
a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. — John Coleman

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!' — Ornette Coleman

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season. — Jerry Coleman

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world. — Jim Coleman

My background was in performing originally. — Cy Coleman

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter. — David Coleman

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it. — Ornette Coleman

You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man. — Gary B.B. Coleman

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is. — Jerry Coleman

After I found out that I was playing music and that I'd have to learn how to read and write music, I started doing that about two years later. Finally, I said, "Oh, that means what I really want to do is to be a composer." But when I was coming up in Texas, there was segregation. There was no schools to go to. I taught myself how to read and how to start writing. — Ornette Coleman

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in. — Ornette Coleman

And I definitely have an affinity with the piano. — Jim Coleman

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything. — Rebecca Coleman

The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [ ... ] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War. — John Coleman

As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life. — Wanda Coleman

You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes. — Ornette Coleman

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. — Coleman Barks

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen. — Jim Coleman

After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player. — Ornette Coleman

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. — John Coleman

What I deeply want ... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self. — Coleman Barks

If the finest hour is now, then I'll always be in it. — Jim Coleman

They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it. — Charlotte Coleman

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you. — Gary Coleman

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do ... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do. — Dabney Coleman

He can be lethal death. — Jerry Coleman

Aint nuttin' but a peanut. — Ronnie Coleman

I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them. — Coleman Barks

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five. — Jerry Coleman

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have. — James S. Coleman

He wished he had feelings for Andi, wanted to be interested in her ... But there were 10 quick reasons why he wasn't interested. The biggest: Bailey Flanigan. He could hear her laugh from across the room. He sighed, and it felt like it came from the basement of his soul. — Karen Kingsbury

One thing you can't beat in this world is time. I learnt that the hard way. You can't play basketball forever. You can't play football forever. You can't bodybuild forever. I mean you CAN do it, but not at a high level against younger guys who have more time and have not reached their peaks yet. There's only so much the body can do and once you're done, you can't go back in time. — Ronnie Coleman

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on. — Gary Coleman

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. — James S. Coleman

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying. — Coleman Hawkins

Upon patterned cushions that might have been honked, zig by zag, out of Ornette Coleman's horn, the odalisque exposed her flesh to a society that had grown frightened again of flesh. — Tom Robbins

It's such a foolish thing to argue about names, when what we're doing is all one thing. — Coleman Barks

The world is stuffed full of peasants. — Shirley Coleman

I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle. — Ronnie Coleman

Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee. — Jerry Coleman

I'd love to be a Bond Girl. — Jenna-Louise Coleman

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican? — Jerry Coleman

Forest have now lost six matches without winning. — David Coleman

You must always try to go through the clouds. — Fred Coleman

The past is always with us, in the form of our photographs, which we feel as we might a rosary, wearing them smooth with the fingering of our eyes. — A. D. Coleman

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4. — Jerry Coleman

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. — James S. Coleman

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul. — Jerry Coleman

Grace's gaze skimmed over her, taking in the various marks of possession that decorated her flesh. "Well, short of having 'Property of Trey Coleman' tattooed on your forehead, he couldn't have made it any clearer that he considered you his, could he? — Suzanne Wright

I've been training so long, its second nature to push myself to the limit. — Ronnie Coleman

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful. — Gary Coleman

The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men. — T. Coleman Andrews

Vote. Even if they are all hopelessly inadequate, pick the least terrible one and vote. My mother fought hard to get you that vote. — Rowan Coleman

When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect. — Reed Farrel Coleman

With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood. — Jim Coleman

Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I've ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just falls over everyone. — Chad Coleman

I did two or three plays every summer. — Dabney Coleman

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it. — Monique Coleman

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane. — Herbie Mann