Kousatu Quotes & Sayings

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God. — Quincy Jones

If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He did not do so because he thought he knew. Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone. — Christopher Hitchens

Bibamus, moriendum est.

-Death's unavoidable, let's have a drink! — Mary Stanton

A serious student of any instrument who really worked hard could usually learn to play that instrument at the 85 percent level, no matter what the difficulties, he told her, but the last 15 percent on any instrument requires "something out of the ordinary" from a player. — Mary Sue Welsh

If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all — Sunday Adelaja

I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk. — Jimmy Wales

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. — Lewis Mumford

Sex is God's joke on human beings. — Bette Davis

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. — Richard Schickel

Here, in the barren hell of Zus, there was nothing but the wind, and the wind talked. — Lynn Kelling

He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS written across the chest. — Marjorie M. Liu

Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me. — Marilynne Robinson