Reconsidering Blues Quotes & Sayings

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all. — Murray Kempton

He gave Robert an apparently meaningful wink that failed to convey any meaning at all. — Anna Mattaar

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form, — Anne Truitt

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible. — Christopher Abbott

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. — Clarence Darrow

Movies, novels, TV shows - these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we're turned away, sent to the ghetto. — Hal Duncan

We have not only to be witnesses and pleaders, but we have also to be examples ... If a man's life at home is unworthy, he should go several miles away before he stands up to preach, and then, when he stands up, he should say nothing. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you. — David Allen

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over. — Thalia

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice. — Neil Kinnock

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff. — Peter Kreeft

Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind. — Joan D. Vinge

On December 7, 2001, Osama announced that he was leaving. "He deserted us," remembers Al-Hubayshi bitterly. "After five weeks his people came round telling us to make our way to Pakistan as best we could and surrender to our embassies there. We had been ready to lay down our lives for him, and he couldn't make the effort to speak to us personally. Today I think that I was made use of by Bin Laden - exploited,
just like all the young kids who went to jihad. What did he care when he sent us over the horizon to die? He was as bad as the religious sheikhs back in Saudi who preached jihad in their
sermons every Friday. How many of them ever sent their own sons to Afghanistan? — Robert Lacey

time itself cannot be managed, but you can save hours every single day by simply managing yourself. — Vincent Santiago