Hellriegel Slocum Quotes & Sayings

Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. — George Gershwin

Offer someone £50 for telling you what Mashik of 45 is, and he will ask "what is Mashik?". Then offer him £100 to tell you what tangent of 45 is, and he will turn down the challenge. He will not even ask what tangent is, because clearly it sounds like maths, and we don't mess with maths... — Ilan Samson

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be careful, Angel, he says. When you stare at a man like that, he's likely to git any number of number of ... innerestin ideas. — Moira Young

His idea is to get your team together and pretend that your product has failed. That's right: failed, cratered, imploded, or "went aloha oe," as we say in Hawaii. You ask the team to come up with all the reasons why the failure occurred. Then each member has to state one reason until every reason is on a list. The next step is to figure out ways to prevent every reason from occurring. — Guy Kawasaki

Home, she thought, looking at him. — Lauren Groff

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today. — Michael J. Fox

I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough. — Alisa Steinberg

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst. — Benjamin Franklin

All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives. — Evelyn Underhill

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds. — Sylvia Plath

Door in the Dark:
In going from room to room in the dark,
I reached out blindly to save my face,
But neglected, however lightly, to lace
My fingers and close my arms in an arc.
A slim door got in past my guard,
And hit me a blow in the head so hard
I had my native simile jarred.
So people and things don't pair any more
With what they used to pair with before. — Robert Frost