Ottiwell Jones Quotes & Sayings

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one. — Miles Davis

From Joan Baez at Town Hall in New York City, on her 50th Anniversary Tour as a performer. "People always ask me about my voice. I tell them, 'The gift is from God. My job is just maintenance and delivery. — Terry Brennan

I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging. — John Carmack

The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"
Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way. — W.E.B. Du Bois

To be raped is to be sexually violated. For society to force someone, through shame and ostracism, to comply with love and sex that it defines, is nothing but organized rape. That is what homophobia is all about. Organized rape. — Lee Maracle

Only as he shut the door behind him, barricading Gwen inside lest she decide to risk bumping into one of his friends to explore, spy or even search for a phone to call the Hunters - she's not working for them, damn it! - did he realize he was about to knowingly pair a Harpy with the goddess of Anarchy. Great. He'd be lucky if his head was still attached in the morning. — Gena Showalter

Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up. — The Notorious B.I.G.

Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is planning to honeymoon for three weeks in front of Congress. — Conan O'Brien

Any state that justifies and defends the use of torture claims for itself special rights over any other consideration. — Stephen Alford

If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great monument of strength! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other. — Ernestine Rose

Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian. — David Suzuki

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. — Terry Goodkind