"Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands."

-- Lionel Hampton

#Music Quotes #Hands Quotes #Wife Quotes

“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.”
“When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.”
“The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.”
“I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of hecklers and figures there was some Big Daddy in me, just lyin' dormant. And out it came. People still do call me Big Daddy, but to me, inside, I'm no Big Daddy at all.”
“None of the parties want this conflict to go on.”
“At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.”
“Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.”
“I don't buy jewelry just for the aesthetic side.”

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