"He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question."

-- Miles Davis

#People Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Speak Quotes

“And part of growin’ up is learnin’ to see the world through other men’s eyes.”

Source : William Martin (2011). “Citizen Washington”, p.638, Macmillan
“I once stopped to pick up a girl, and then there was this creepy-looking guy standing behind the bushes waiting to jump out and get in, too. So I just quickly drove away.”
“In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.”
“I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'”
“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”
“You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.”
“The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.”

Source : Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors
“I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”

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