"Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that."

-- Carla Bley

#Bakers Quotes #Sophisticated Quotes #Mulligans Quotes

“Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'”
“The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.”
“We are only fully alive when we're helping others”
“Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.”
“Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.”
“Already known as one of Americaâ€™s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his vision: comic, tender, wry, compassionate, full of insight and rueful understanding of what it means to carry on, cream pies in the face, pants falling down as the Green Weenie rampages through our foolish, beautiful lives.”

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