Memorable Quotes - Page 32

• Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Dust, Jazz And Life

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• Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Thinking, Jazz

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• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  Ornette Coleman

  Music, Night, Playing Jazz

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Peace, Integrity

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• Don't agonize, organize.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Inspiring, Peace, Women

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• Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Poetry, Gourds

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

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• Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Time, Women, People

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Moving, Cutting

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Retrospect, Glamorous

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• When my love swears that she is made of truth,
  I do believe her, though I know she lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Sonnet 138

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• No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Break Up, Revenge, Women

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• Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

  Colleen Barrett

  Life, Fun, Attitude

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• This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

  Fred Astaire

  Motivational, Dance, Time

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• It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.

  David Brenner

  Travel, Vacation, Vacation Time

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• Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

  Lester Bowie

  Music, Exercise, Jazz And Life

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• It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Would Be, Ifs

  "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein".

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• Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

  W. Ann Reynolds

  Art, Women, Knows

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• With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace.

  Joan Rivers

  Age, Needs, Looks

  "Remembering Joan Rivers" by Erica Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2014.

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• When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off.

  Joan Rivers

  Men, Years, Age

  "25 of Joan Rivers' best jokes". www.cnn.com. September 05, 2014.

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• You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

  Joan Rivers

  Sexy, Age, Underwear

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• My breasts are so low, now I can have a mammogram and a pedicure at the same time.

  Joan Rivers

  Age, Mammograms, Pedicures

  "25 of Joan Rivers' best jokes", www.cnn.com. September 5, 2014.

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• When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hands, Water, Rafting

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• Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

  Charles Kuralt

  Running, Home, Rivers

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• Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

  Lauren Bacall

  Humility, Mirrors, Study

  The Daily Mail, November 1, 1990.

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• Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

  Dieter Rams

  Meaningful, Design, Great Design

  "Basics Design 01: Format: Second Edition" by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, A&C Black, (p. 151), May 1, 2012.

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