Foundation For The Lost Quote Quotes & Sayings

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. — Jesse Jackson

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the song tingling from the transistor on the beach blanket. To locate those songs again can become, with age, something like a religious quest, as suggested by the frequent use of the phrase "Holy Grail" to describe hard-to-find tracks. The collector is haunted by the knowledge that somewhere on the planet an intact chunk of his past still exists, uncorrupted by time or circumstance. — Geoffrey O'Brien

The sounds of gunfire didn't bother Winn any more. It just meant that this was the weekend, or a soccer tournament, or someone had a sale on ammunition. — Scott Rhine

Ask any of your elders and they will tell you: Trujillo might have been a dictator, but, he was a Dominican dictator, which is another way of saying he was the number-one bellaco in the country. — Junot Diaz

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks — Erving Goffman

Give me one year.Give me a year to prove to you that we belong together. That your darkness won't blot out my light. Promise me — Robin Bridges

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. — Renee Fleming

If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band, so everyone has their say. — Jane Wiedlin

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film. — Tino Sehgal

When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within. — Johnathan Jena

The highest does not stand without the lowest. — Thomas A Kempis