Twangsville Quotes & Sayings

I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body. — Paul Horn

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually. — Guido Van Rossum

There can only be a need for forgiveness when first there is blame.
And there can only be blame, when first there is misunderstanding. — Mike Dooley

Being in love is one of the greatest feelings in the world. You risk your heart, but it has to be better than going through life without it at all. — Brooke Cumberland

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. — Clarence Darrow

Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom. — Mitt Romney

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique. — Jewel

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals. — Fredric Jameson

If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice. — Michael Kinsley

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity. — Anton Chekhov

(In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.) — Ismail Kadare

In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder. — James Maxton

Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death. — Colette