"Actually, when I was very young, first starting to play, I think I probably listened more to clarinet players than to saxophones."

-- Gerry Mulligan

#Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe.”
“Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”
“But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.63, Macmillan
“All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.”
“You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.”
“I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.”
“We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1871). “A History of the Corruptions of Christianity”, p.16
“I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.”

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