Stan King Gm Superstore Quotes & Sayings

During the so-called Jazz Age, most of the music's key exponents focused their creative energy on soloing not bandleading, on improvisation not orchestration, on an interplay between individual instruments not between sections.
[...] Commercial pressures, rather than artistic prerogatives, stand out as the spur that forced many early jazz players (including Armstrong, Beiderbecke, and Hines) to embrace the big band idiom. But even in the new setting, they remained improvisers, first and foremost, not orchestrators or composers. — Ted Gioia

We are not America. We are Afghanistan. — Hamid Karzai

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary. — Raymond Kelly

I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect ... but because the kids are capable and independent ... They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant. — Vicki Lansky

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder. — Aaron Sorkin

It wasn't fair. It wasn't fair that I'd stumbled across the kind of man I used to find irresistible, or that he'd managed to stare right inside my brain to locate my weaknesses. The thrill of being wanted while pretending not to be interested was a game I'd played over and over during my youth. I'd grown up since then. I'd done more than my share of getting mixed up with men who were all ego and muscles, and he reminded me exactly why I'd given them up.
Unfortunately, my body hadn't got the memo yet. — Kyra Lennon

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. — Leigh Steinberg

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test. — Erin Gruwell

I was in danger of drowning, and nobody lost at sea worries about whether the spar they cling to is made of elm or oak. — Jeanette Winterson

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. — Alice Hoffman

I caught Faraday's face between my hands and broke off the kiss, breathless.
"I've just thought of something," I said.
"Something we haven't tried."
"There's a lot of things we haven't tried," he said, "but I'm going to refrain from the obvious, and assume you're talking about the wormhole. What is it? — R. J. Anderson

I have never known a great trader, with his first reputation established as a bear operator, who did not either turn bull or drop out of the market altogether. — William Peter Hamilton

She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Loneliness is failed solitude. — Sherry Turkle

Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner. — James Wolcott