Percy Thrower Quotes & Sayings

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music. — Andy Gibb

What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even be intellectuals. Why is Martin Sommers an intellectual? It is a political journalist who writes mediocre pieces. If that is sufficient to call yourself a 'European intellectual then the question of the debate has already become rhetorical. — Martijn Benders

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy. — Simon Sinek

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means. — Mahatma Gandhi

Stop insisting on clearing your head - clear your fucking heart instead. — Charles Bukowski

I spent hours yesterday talking of little but medical symptoms and insane asylums. And you listened as though it were poetry and all but swooned at my feet. It is too bad I don't have any medical treatises about. I'm sure I need read a paragraph or two, and you will become ravenous with lust and begin tearing my clothes off. (Dorian from "The Mad Earl's Bride") — Loretta Chase

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. — Irving Babbitt

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching. — Chevy Chase