Stampante Quotes & Sayings

If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't. — Steve Pavlina

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector. — Jacques Attali

Every time an actress is celebrated for her great work, I cheer. For the more brilliant their performance, the more the audience demands stories about women ... And as we all know: a great year for women in film, is just a great year for film. — Jessica Chastain

No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners. — Michelle Franklin

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient. — Timothy Griffin

I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. Tell — Oscar Wilde

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. — Frank Herbert

That type of dream just kind of wears out with time like a favorite old T-shirt. One day, it's nothing but tatters and all you can do is throw it over on the rag pile with the others. — Tim Tharp

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world. — Ella Fitzgerald

Nothing in the world is like this-
a bright white page with
pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil
the soft hush of it
moving finally
one day
into letters. — Jacqueline Woodson

But just because we can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. — Courtney Cole