Funambulist Quotes & Sayings

It's much easier for me to say that, the kind of music I didn't listen to was pretty much that. I mean everything, from jazz to classical to popular. And Tibetan horns were a great part of it in 1966, '67. — David Bowie

The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective. — Edwin Schlossberg

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart! — Emma Stone

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution. — Kevin Rudd

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness
an incompleteness
in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it. — Willard Gaylin

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it. — Bobby Keys

free." On the edge of town, Fitzgerald saw a sight "that has never left my memory. It was a picture story of the death of one 82nd Airborne trooper. He had occupied a German foxhole and made it his personal Alamo. In a half circle around the hole lay the bodies of nine German soldiers. The body closest to the hole was only three feet away, a potato masher [grenade] in its fist.II The other distorted forms lay where they had fallen, testimony to the ferocity of the fight. His ammunition bandoliers were still on his shoulders, empty of M-1 clips. Cartridge cases littered the ground. His rifle stock was broken in two. He had fought alone and, like many others that night, he had died alone. "I looked at his dog tags. The name read Martin V. Hersh. I wrote the name down in a small prayer book I carried, hoping someday I would meet someone who knew him. I never did."34 — Stephen E. Ambrose

Be like water, my friend. — Bruce Lee

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. — Tim Burton

Funambulist.' said Sophronia Temminnick, quite suddenly.
'Sophronia, such language!' Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott reprimanded.
'Pardon?' said Agatha Woosmoss.
Sidheag Maccon, the final member of Sophronia's group, muttered, 'Bless you.'
'I wasn't sneezing, nor being indelicate, thank you all very much. I was thinking out loud.'
'As if thinking out loud weren't *decidedly* indelicate.' Dimity was not to be swayed out of disapproval when she felt it might exercise her creativity. — Gail Carriger