"Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well."

“It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.”

“Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!”

“I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1863). “Heroic idyls, with additional poems”, p.230

“From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.”

“What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.”

“It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.”

“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”

“I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com