Mendini Saxophone Quotes & Sayings

Apparently the pro-choice types who jump up and down in the street demanding that you keep your rosaries off their ovaries are entirely relaxed about the government getting its bureaucratics all over your lymphatics. — Mark Steyn

I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean? — Eugene Ionesco

People who exercised about three to six hours prior to sleep slept better. No exercise, no improved sleep. — Matthew Edlund

Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided. — Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter. — Sid Waddell

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. — Augustus Hare

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners. — Ephrem The Syrian

Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. — Patrick Rothfuss

"What is honor?" "Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is man's gift to himself." "Do women have it?" "Women have a heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in 'em. We must never mistreat a woman or malign a man, or standby and see another do so." "How do you know you have it?" "Never worry on the gift of it. It grows in ya' and speaks to ya'. All ya' need do is listen" ... — Rob Roy MacGregor

Developments can happen right in front of you like that, you don't even see them. — Adam Johnson

We were having a class on civics, talking about what makes America a great country. I said I thought one important reason is that we've all come from different places in the world and that we learn from one another. — Ruth Reichl

Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'. — Jeffrey Carver

In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out. It was the place with no darkness. — George Orwell

To a Soviet person, used to the nationality policy of the USSR, all the mistakes of the American government's Indian policy are evident from the first glance. The mistakes are, of course, intentional. The fact of the matter is that in Indian schools, class is conducted exclusively in English. There is no written form of any Indian language at all. It's true that every Indian tribe has its own language, but this doesn't change anything. If there were any desire to do so, the many American specialists who have fallen in love with Indian culture could create Indian written languages in a short time. But imperialism remains imperialism. — Ilya Ilf