Repertoires Of Contention Quotes & Sayings

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life — Paul Auster

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head. — Donald Byrd

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville. — Billy Rose

Let's forget about each other forever," she told him. "we're too old for this sort of thing now. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I like the communication and trust that comes from a long-term relationship. When you really know people as musicians and as people, you feel you can really count on them. That frees you to take more chances and ... it takes the music to a higher level. It translates into a better product for audiences. There are two levels to these relationships. The first level is being with guys for the first few years, you're getting used to guys - he's got this to offer, he's got that to offer, I don't like this, I do like this. You both praise them and are critical as you get to know one another. — Dave Liebman

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. — Russell Baker

A story is a wondrous invention. — Chris Womersley

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle. — Ronnie Milsap

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity. — W.S. Gilbert

From our myopia arose our dystopia. — Anthony Marais

I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life. — Swami Vivekananda