Shoumatoff Portrait Quotes & Sayings

Half the people in the world have never made a phone call ... half. — William Esrey

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries. — George Crumb

The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. — Dale Carnegie

When taking Spock to see the spores, Leila comments, "It's not much further." having been beaten about the head severely on the difference between "further" and "farther," I believe I can say with some trembling confidence that she should say, "it's not much farther." "Further" means "to a greater extent or degree" whereas "farther" means "to a greater distance." (I know this is really picky, but hey, that's my business.) — Phil Farrand

I could always hold a melody, but I was never like, I'm going to be a singer. So I'm able to use that when I write. I'm actually playing the beat with my voice. Instead of thinking about coming up with melodies, it's like filling in the instruments. So sometimes it's better to have beats with less melodies in them, because then I can play more with my vocals. — Kid Ink

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. — George Bancroft

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is. — Ignatius Of Antioch

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist. — Edward Abbey

Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming. — John Stuart Mill

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me. — Djuna Barnes

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other ... they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down ... — Lauren Oliver