Seely Castle Quotes & Sayings

A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years! — Cannonball Adderley

You cannot clap with one hand alone. — John Taylor Wood

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work. — Lee Clow

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things. — Luis Gonzalez

The others were far scattered, like leaves blown by the wild wind. — George R R Martin

Only those who do not wish to see can be deceived. — Dianna Hardy

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better. — Pat McBride

Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over. — Alexander Beresford Hope

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture. — Albert Einstein

The idea of mind separate from body goes far back in time. The most famous expression of this is the idea of the Platonic image discussed in the Socratic Dialogues (circa 350 BC). Socrates and Plato expressed the opinion that the real world was but a shadow of reality, and that reality existed on a higher, purer plane reachable only through and preserved in the mind. The mind was considered immortal and survived the crumbling corpus in which it dwelt. But only enlightened minds, such as theirs, could see true reality. As such, they believed people like themselves ought to be elevated to the position of philosopher kings and rule the world with purity of vision. (A similarly wacky idea was expressed by the fictional air force General Jack D. Ripper in Kubrick's classic dark satire Dr. Strangelove. General Ripper postulated that purity of essence was the most important thing in life.) — James Luce

Life has vanquished death and even the furniture celebrates. — Salman Rushdie

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. — Italo Calvino

I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense. And life, you know, on an everyday basis, is absurd, or may turn out to be absurd. There's no reality without absurdity. — Tomi Ungerer