Medley Quotes

• We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Attitude, Emotional, May

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• Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Life, Song

  "Comment" l. 1 (1926)

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• See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

  Mel Torme

  Special, Together, Band

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• How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalation of air but a quivering intake of life. The eye is quickened to the play of light and shade and color, the ear to the intricate medley of sound. This is where the meditation leads. Stay with it; rest with it. Notice how distraction is a flight from this, an escape from awe to worry and plans.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Eye, Light, Air

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• There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

  Mark Twain

  Sunday, America, Issues

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.155, 谷月社

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

  Geneen Roth

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

  Al Yankovic

  Albums, Polka, Percent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

  Bill Medley

  Real, Blessed, Vegas

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

  Geneen Roth

  Meditation, Tools, Awake

  Twitter post from May 27, 2014

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• I want free life, and I want fresh air;
  And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
  The crack of the whip like shots in battle,
  The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads
  That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;
  The green beneath and the blue above,
  And dash, and danger, and life and love.

  Frank Desprez

  Life And Love, Freedom, War

  Frank Desprez, “Laska”

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• The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

  Bill Medley

  Brother, Black, Rhythm And Blues

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• No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Science, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.

  Edward Young

  Book, Years, Individuality

  Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.561

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• My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Sunday, Night, Cleaning

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Science, Order, Together

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.22, Everyman's Library

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• When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Song, Palaces, Buckingham Palace

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

  George Harrison

  Music, Song, Years

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• The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Government, Order, Law

  "If I am assassinated".

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• For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

  C.P. Snow

  Fall, Eye, Science

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.30, House of Stratus

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• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

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• In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Garden, Lakes, Years

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• in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Heaven, Sublime

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.158, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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