You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.
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