Thorson Buick Quotes & Sayings

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows. — Mitch Albom

If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive. — Saul Alinsky

Michael Faraday, the son of a Yorkshire blacksmith, was born in south London in 1791. He was self-educated, leaving school at fourteen to become an apprentice bookbinder. He engineered his own lucky break into the world of professional science after attending a lecture in London by the Cornish scientist Sir Humphry Davy in 1811. Faraday sent the notes he had taken at the lecture to Davy, who was so impressed by Faraday's diligent transcription that he appointed him his scientific assistant. Faraday went on to become a giant of nineteenth-century science, widely acknowledged to have been one of the greatest experimental physicists of all time. Davy is quoted as saying that Faraday was his greatest scientific discovery. — Brian Cox

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances. — Eddie Murphy

I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman — Dewey Redman

Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive. — Bryant McGill

Hopefully one of these days, I'll see past all that. Get back to the memories of before, when things are right and it really was just you and me. Back when I was stupid enough to think it would be forever. — Kristina McBride

[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to call things by their proper names. If only you knew... how I hate my own self, how much I hate my ugliness, yet never so much as I detest my heart. — Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

I have the basic skills already, my basic weapons if we put it that way. From there I can add more the necessary skills I need for a particular opponent. I have to study all the aspects of my opponent, so when I am in the ring, everything will be automatic. — Tomoki Kameda

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. — Bertolt Brecht

You'd think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it's painful. — David Levithan

Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.' — Jim Webb

Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist? — Lauren Willig