Nuvintage Quotes & Sayings

For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty formulas of intellectual superiority. — Alex Ross

If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey — Christopher Moore

Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police. — Ava Gardner

The truth is so precious," Churchill told Stalin, "that she should always be protected by a bodyguard of lies. — William Manchester

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is. — Jill McCorkle

To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad. — Xenophon

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done. — P. J. O'Rourke

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can't expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations. — Dalai Lama

I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy — Edith Wharton

You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever. — Isaiah Washington

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me. — Sue Monk Kidd