Quincy Carter Quotes & Sayings

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself. — Hiromi

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. — J. Carter Brown

It's an odd world. — Timothy Spall

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements. — Thomas Mallon

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C.S. Lewis

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Colleen Barrett

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love. — Monica Bellucci

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try. — Timothy Keller

Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there. — Mark Halperin

Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children! — Joseph Conrad

Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to blacks for other things outside of blues and barbecue. He's a total musician. He was the pioneer, he was the foundation. He made it possible for that doubt to be taken away. — Quincy Jones

I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it. — Ella Henderson

With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play. — Simon Mainwaring