"Wagnerâ€™s music is better than it sounds."

-- Mark Twain

#Music Quotes #Witty Quotes #Humorous Quotes

“Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.”

Source : Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway (2010). “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming”, p.195, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.”
“He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.”
“The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, â€œI love youâ€, that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic”
“The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.”
“The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.”
“The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.”

Source : Mary Everest Boole (1931). “...Collected Works...”
“If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.”

You may also like:

Charles Dickens
Writer
Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Hal Holbrook
Actor
Jack London
Author
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Susy Clemens
Literary critic
William Faulkner
Writer
William Shakespeare
Poet