Gitane Bicycle Quotes & Sayings

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image. — Roy H. Williams

I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all at the same time. Sometimes now I listen to Louis while I have my favorite dessert of vanilla ice cream and sloe gin. I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound. — Ralph Ellison

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding. — Hans Rosling

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house. — Lisa Scottoline

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down. — Anna Deavere Smith

The hardest lesson in the world:
Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. — Cormac McCarthy

He's been asleep since the war began. He knows this now. In defending himself from death he lost his grip on life. He thinks of Emina, risking her life to deliver expired pills to someone she's never met. Of the young man who ran into the street to save her when she was shot. Of the cellist who plays for those killed in a mortar attack. He could run now, but he doesn't. — Steven Galloway