Nonparticipant Quotes & Sayings

The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile. — Janet Weiss

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease. — Chuck Palahniuk

When I think about Christian hip hop I think of an individual who is a Christian who is using hip hop to communicate things that God will endorse. — LeCrae

I can't think of anybody we toured with that had more impact on us than Queen. — Phil Ehart

Every time I make a new game, I put all of my effort completely into that game. It's like putting all your effort into a new child that's being born. Once the project is done, I can step back and look at it objectively, which is when I can see a lot of flaws. That's when I start to make a new game that tries to fix some of those flaws. — Hideo Kojima

I don't like getting dressed up. It's hard because as a woman, as an actor, the whole world wants you to enjoy dressing up. — Andrea Riseborough

We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum. — Solange Nicole

Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am a nonparticipant of social media. I'm not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance. — Billy Collins

You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town. — Tupac Shakur

The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day. — Martin Luther

Forty-five years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freeing American slaves, Green Cottenham and more than a thousand other black men toiled under the lash at Slope 12. Imprisoned in what was then the most advanced city of the South, guarded by whipping bosses employed by the most iconic example of the modern corporation emerging in the gilded North, they were slaves in all but name. — Douglas A. Blackmon

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful. — Ronald Fisher