"I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics."

-- Oscar Peterson

#Musician Quotes #Critics Quotes

“Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.”

Source : "Jeff Daniels, star of The Newsroom, on walking, talking, and not getting typecast". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.
“Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.”
“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.”
“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
“The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.”
“That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.”

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