Downbeat Jazz Quotes & Sayings

If you're an introvert, you also know that the bias against quiet can cause deep psychic pain. As a child you might have overheard your parents apologize for your shyness. Or at school you might have been prodded to come "out of your shell" -that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and some humans are just the same. — Susan Cain

I applaud those who speak, but I admire those who act. — Steve Maraboli

First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination. — Joseph Campbell

Don't look back and ask, Why? Look ahead and ask, Why not? — Neil Patel

But I am running to and you are running from, and there's a world of difference there. — George R R Martin

How the hell are you supposed to survive, when the part of you that you need to live is walking around outside your body? — Aurora Rose Reynolds

Looking at this house made me crushingly aware that most of my life I'd lived behind the shadow of who my father wished me to be. And all I'd ever longed for was to stand in the sunshine of being loved for who I was. — Mia Sheridan

She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.'
'We get to keep them,' I said.
Grace started at my voice. 'What?'
'It's the one thing we keep. Our eyes stay the same.' I unclenched my fists. 'I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life. — Maggie Stiefvater

You're not going to bite me with your fangs, are you? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

She's really married?" Tallow said to Bat.
"Yeah. Talia's like this Scandinavian Amazon who can break rocks with her boobs. She could fit Scarly in her armpit. Sometimes I think she likes Scarly just because she was the most portable lesbian available. — Warren Ellis

That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!' — Bill Maher

We would never ask a hearing student to comprehend a lecture in Mandarin if he or she did not have proficiency in the language. Nevertheless, we ask this feat of deaf children everyday. — Christine Monikowski

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison. — Nicholas Kristof

Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great. — Aretha Franklin

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. — William Shakespeare

Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened wasn't wrong or didn't matter. If it wasn't wrong or didn't hurt, there wouldn't be anything to forgive. — Leigh Powers