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“Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.”
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“Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery”
Source : Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
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“I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.”
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“There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.”
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“Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.”
Source : Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield
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“The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat.”
Source : Oliver Stewart (1928). “Aeolus: Or, The Future of the Flying Machine”
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“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”
Source : Joaquin Miller (1917). “The Building of the City Beautiful”
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“If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the night with an axe murderer.”
