Okudzhava Songs Quotes & Sayings

I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it. — Daniel Kahneman

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land. — Walter Scott

All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. — Aesop

Cunning authors cut to be quoted. — Willis Regier

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid. — Edward Norton

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. — Mayer Hawthorne

Life is about trade-offs," said the lunatic ... "The difference between happy people and unhappy people is that happy people accept the trade-offs and unhappy people complain about them. Personally, I prefer to be happy. — Jacob M. Appel

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it. — James Cameron

I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country. — Sophie Hunger

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one! — Paul Cezanne

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win. — Seth Godin

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows. — Thomas Carlyle