"I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still the tree trunk."

-- Earl Hines

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“My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.”
“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.”

Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”
“I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.”

Source : "Alec Baldwin in Criminal Investigation After Allegedly Attacking Photographers" by Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. June 20, 2012.
“I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.”

Source : 1945 'Trans Canada'.
“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).”
“Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.”
“There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.”

Source : "Micmacs". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com.
“What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.”

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