Jazzman Song Quotes & Sayings

Of course we need action, but it should be Just action. — Clare Short

I think it's really hard to draw a hard-and-fast line and say 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' doesn't count as science fiction or fantasy. Or at what point do we say mythology is not fantasy, so reading mythology when you're young does not count as an exposure to fantasy? — Robin Hobb

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. — Theodore Roosevelt

His eyes search mine, more serious than his tone would indicate, and I know he's looking to see whether or not I'm falling apart. He doesn't need to. — Kiersten White

The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation. — William Lane Craig

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value. — Matt Damon

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic. — Shereen El Feki

Striving to Create Provisions for Tomorrow's Organisations — Gordon Owen IGO EBooks

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. — Toby Young

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list. — Paul Zollo

There seemed to be little rhyme or reason as to why one day snatching the correct words from the ether was like opening a faucet and other days it was like opening a vein, — Dennis Lehane

The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech. — Jason Calacanis

What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, "Isis in Darkness." The Egyptian Queen of Heaven and Earth was wandering in the Underworld, gathering up pieces of the murdered and dismembered body of her lover Osiris. At the same time, it was her own body she was putting back together; and it was also the physical universe. She was creating the universe by an act of love. — Margaret Atwood