Percussion Group Quotes & Sayings

The facts of my native world, I came to understand that my country was a galaxy, and this galaxy stretched from the pandemonium of West Baltimore to the happy hunting grounds of Mr. Belvedere. I obsessed over the distance between that other sector of space and my own. I knew that my portion of the American galaxy, where bodies were enslaved by a tenacious gravity, was black and that the other, liberated portion was not. I knew that some inscrutable energy preserved the breach. I felt, but did not yet understand, the relation between that other world and me. And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England ... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is. — George Harrison

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will? — Pope Francis

I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was. — David Foster Wallace

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. — Grace Napolitano

Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars. — Darryl F. Zanuck

I like to show the grey area in all my characters. — Lee Daniels

Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance. — Lenny Henry

My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me. — Natalie Goldberg

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan. — Wesley L. Duewel

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity. — Gavyn Davies

I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. — Michael Douglas

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained. — Tony Robbins