Ricky Sticks Quotes & Sayings

We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a solitary pastime. We sit within another's person. — Brenda Walker

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues far beyond the pale of the accepted definitions of keyboard competence. Whether on piano or organ, when you hear Bruce Katz you know it's him, unmistakably and uniquely. — Larry Coryell

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past. — Alan Dundes

Dukhoborcheskaya — Thomas Paine

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago. — Lewis H. Lapham

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me. — Anthony Braxton

Jenna reached over and held one of my hands, Kara held the other, and I felt like the universe was holding us all.
For that night, maybe just for that magic moment, it all seemed to make so much sense, like the thousand puzzle pieces of my life were all in place and I knew the How and Why of all things. It was one of those moments that I was sure would stay impressed on me forever because it was real and true. It was as tangible as the blanket beneath me. I felt lik I had touched something, something as big as the universe, and it had touched me back.
I didn't know that even a big moment like that could be snuffed out in a matter of days by packing to go home, by the wrong teacher on the wrong school schedule, or by my uncle getting his brains blown out at a traffic stop.
But all that just made Kara and Jenna brighter stars in my sky. I had no way of knowing that, in a matter of weeks, even those stars would be snuffed out. — Mary E. Pearson

She reaches up and ties the strip of black cloth so that it covers my dead eye.
"Now, go Arrghh.
"Arrghh.
She nods.
"There. You're a pirate. — Charlie Huston

Miss Treason! Remember you have an appointment!"
It wasn't the best thing to say, but a lot better than: "You said you were going to die in about five minutes' time! — Terry Pratchett

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. — Baltasar Gracian

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right! — William Shakespeare