"Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat."

-- Bill Johnson

#Perfectly Good Quotes #Water Quotes #Thieves Quotes

“Strangeâ€”we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existenceâ€”but they all fit in if the art is right.”
“It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part”
“The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.”
“It's always harder than you think to make a good film. Feature films are a hell of a marathon to say the least. It's kind of your endurance. How much can I push? How much do I care? How much time it takes is a nice reminder.”
“May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.”
“You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing...”

Source : Downbeat magazine Interview, 1961.
“Human dignity is more precious than prestige....”
“Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.”

Source : c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.

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