Earl Fatha Hines Quotes & Sayings

We need the past around us for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that it provides a sense of direction. — Peter Mires

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I keep wondering why the Academy decided that they needed a separate category for animated films just at a moment when there are a lot of people who couldn't tell you whether a film is animated or not. - Roy E. Disney — Newton Lee

He felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls. — Iris Murdoch

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it. — W. A. Criswell

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey. — H.L. Mencken

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. — David Hume

They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged. — Terry Pratchett

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life. — Lisa Marie Presley

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. — Vladimir Lenin

As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page. — Peter Cullen

She cried for the girl who had never belonged. A girl who tried so hard, harder than anyone else, and still never had anything to show for it. — Marissa Meyer

Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects. — Jose Cipriano De La Luz Y Caballero

The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is driven by the size of the largest broadcast. Digital blockbusters are not about a million one-to-one moments as much as they are about a few one-to-one-million moments. — Derek Thompson