Skiffle Group Quotes & Sayings

There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England ... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is. — George Harrison

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches. — Gwen Ifill

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down. — Kinky Friedman

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure. — George MacDonald

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge. — Nikki Grimes

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom. — Barry Goldwater

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones. — Charlize Theron

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine. — Stanley Kubrick

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street. — Anthony Holden

You want to draw your readers into the world you've created, make them feel a part of it, make them forget where they are. And you can't do this effectively if you tell your readers about your world secondhand. You — Renni Browne

If you can give up trying to be successful all the time, that will be your biggest success! Try failure sometimes! With failure, you shall learn things that no success can give you! And thus the road of actual big success will be opened! Try failure! Don't try to avoid it, live it, live it to the full, taste it fully! The road of the biggest successes is this one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been. — Audrey Hepburn

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath
so what does that make today worth? — Og Mandino

My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us. — Diana Quick

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40. — Carol Leifer

The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds. — Aaron D. O'Connell