Noordam Quotes & Sayings

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now. — Pat Martino

Eve, did you marry me for my money?"
"You bet your ass. And you'd better hold on to it, or I'm history"
"It's very sweet of you to say so. — J.D. Robb

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. — David Suzuki

I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition. — Dalai Lama

Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and inclusive, particularly on resource allocation and use. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand. — Alan Cohen

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort. — Joseph Conrad

Your condition is NOT your conclusion. — Dale C. Bronner

But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? — George Orwell

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety. — Edmund Burke

But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight. — John Constable

No deceased person is forgotten from the heart (of his relatives that survive him) till after twelve months, for it is said (Ps. xxxi. 12), "I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a lost vessel" (which, as Rashi explains, is like all lost property, not thought of as lost for twelve months, for not till then is proclamation for it given up). — Maurice H. Harris

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. — Maria Mitchell

God and the doctor we like adore,
But only when in danger, not before. — John Owen

Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place. — Sarah Kay