Djacke Quotes & Sayings

Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song can devastate you, or make you get up and dance, stop what you're doing and go, 'What is that?' It just hits you. And it's a very potent thing you're playing around with. — Lou Reed

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing. — Isabel Allende

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up. — Jill Scott

It is not the New Inquisition which is our enemy today; it is hereditary Privilege. It is not Superstition, but Big Business which makes use of Superstition as a wolf makes use of sheep's clothing. — Upton Sinclair

I hear, "Yes,
Let us more education invest!"
Whilst destitute,
Outside their gates doth rest,
Women, children, and men,
Poor and a hungered!
Odd that colleges fill,
Yet mercy is numbered. — Kari L. Greenaway

The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly. — Joshua Bell

Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be brought before the courts in a collateral way, if at all. — Charles A. Beard

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed. — Judith Martin

The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability. — Susannah Cahalan

With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt like a divinely ordained scheme, I cast myself upon the waters of the world's oceans. — Roz Savage

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb. — Todd Rundgren

I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pilllow. — Francisco X. Alarcon