"I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men."

-- Doc Pomus

#Men Quotes #Want Quotes #Singers Quotes

“To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!”
“This liberal is all about socializing- umm I mean...”
“The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.”
“Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye”
“I don't much care to watch myself. There are still probably 50 or 60 episodes of 'Frasier' that I have never seen.”
“A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies..”
“For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.”

Source : Barbara Neely (2015). “Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery”, p.12, Brash Books, LLC

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