"I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known."

-- Gene Lees

#Years Quotes #Oscars Quotes #Today Quotes

“On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.”
“Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.”
“Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.31, William H. Calvin
“In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.”
“Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.”
“If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.”
“Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.”
“After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?”

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