Van Heusen Quotes & Sayings

Encourage public schools to teach American children how to code just after they learn to multiply. — Marvin Ammori

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant. — Jimmy Van Heusen

The air smelled of a limited life expectancy. A — Terry Pratchett

Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. (from song, Take it Easy) — Eagles

Mao had decided to make the city his new capital, and he had its name changed from Peking to Beijing. — Anchee Min

Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list. — Paul Zollo

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves. — Boris Pasternak

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods. — Bernard Levin

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world. — Gustav Mahler