Essentiale Quotes & Sayings

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I never approach a character from a negative place. — Nina Arianda

The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing. — Samuel Johnson

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution. — Ward Cunningham

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?' — Donald Byrd