(249 quotes found)
“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
T.S. Eliot
“The worst thing is when people assume you do birthday parties. And it happens all the time.”
Alex Kipp
“It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.”
Winston Churchill
“I am not obsessed with being rich, not the very least. I am obsessed with the finer things in life and they all come very expensive.”
Ronald Lam
“I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed - things like hoe-downs, fiddle songs, and the art of improvisation, and the New Orleans funeral tradition, and call-and-response church singing, and the fact that the blues run through everything. And in our relationship to European music, in that we don't have to imitate it, it's a part of us, inseparable.”
Wynton Marsalis
“The whole thing is horrifying. I still pursue it. I go to the media as much as I can. It has affected us a lot. Star's boy is 10 years old now and he does pretty well, but all our family wants to know where Star is. We would like to have a funeral for her.”
Cynthia Hurtie
“The most important thing in a your life is the image that you create for yourself. No matter how hard you might work, if others don't recognize it - it worth nothing!”
Ohad Otmi
“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Once you become detached from "things", they don't own you any longer.”
Contributed by: George Lewis
Wayne Dyer
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong without comment.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
T. H. White
