"Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet."

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Buddy Bolden

#Feet Quotes #Sound Quotes #Let Me Quotes

“We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.”

Source : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.66, Penguin
“In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.”
“Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.”
“I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.”
“Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.”
“I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.”
“Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.”
“I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.”

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