"You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world."

-- Chick Webb

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Band Quotes

“Because I have been lonely, I value love.”
“It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.”
“I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.”
“Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'”
“No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.”

Source : James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.154, Hachette UK
“My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.'”
“If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.”

Source : Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1908). “The New York idea: a comedy in four acts”
“Weâ€™re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, whatâ€™s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balancedâ€”or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?”

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