Lemonia Santa Monica Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm addicted to directing! — Adam Shankman

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war. — Andrew Jackson

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself. — John Flanagan

I can't work in a house where there's saints. The minute there's saints, the devil sends messengers — Timothy Findley

In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night — Kim Wilde

we become the stories we tell ourselves — Michael Cunningham

I got hard and he was there and the next thing I knew he was on his knees. I mean, I was going to step away, but he licked me. — Anne Tenino