"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."

-- Mose Allison

#New York Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.”

Source : Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,
“We are just interested in dealing with the people were paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.”

Source : "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.
“dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.”
“I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.”
“Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.”
“Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!”
“We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer,Â antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down thenÂ puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntacticalÂ units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us.”
“If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.”

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