Lapreshair Quotes & Sayings

No nation has its own culture, only its own barbarism. — Kustaa Vilkuna

The very first hit factory was T.B. Harms, a Tin Pan Alley publishing company overseen by Max Dreyfus. With staff writers like Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, T.B. Harms was the dominant publisher of popular music in the early twentieth century. Dreyfus called his writers "the boys" and installed pianos for them to compose on around the office on West Twenty-Eighth, the street that gave Tin Pan Alley its name, allegedly for the tinny-sounding pianos passersby heard from the upper-story windows of the row houses. The sheet-music sellers also employed piano players in their street-level stores, who would perform the Top 40 of the 1920s for browsing customers. — John Seabrook

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death. — Plato

Where I am at, is not actually where I am at. Where I am at is merely a point on the path to where I am going. — Tony Cleaver

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. — Steve Irwin

Think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices. — Astra Taylor

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. — Aesop

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain. — Paul Gauguin

At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones. — George Soros

Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn? — Lu Xun

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. — George Bernard Shaw

Says he is afraid of me because I am the kind of woman who leaves scars. — Anais Nin

We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given. — Mark Nepo

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. — David Rockefeller

It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name. — M.F. Moonzajer