Niehaus Quotes & Sayings

I look at melody as rhythm. — Charlie Parker

Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment — Alexander Bryan Johnson

Trust no one. Push peolpe away before you have the chance to trust them — Stacy Wise

She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four? — John Burnham Schwartz

'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings. — Kate Christensen

Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to. — John C. Maxwell

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters. — Ben Stiller

Fuck a Smurf and call him Gimpy, is that who I think it is? — Jim Butcher

If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality. — Theodore Roosevelt

Choose well the people around you, friends and everyone else around you. They can teach you lesson, some people give it like this other give it by the hard way. — Deyth Banger

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME! — Dave Niehaus

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it. — Goswami Kriyananda

After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul. — John Connolly