"I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school."

-- Loudon Wainwright III

#School Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Rock And Roll Quotes

“Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present.”

Source : Roger Lowenstein, (2010). “Buffett”, p.372, Gerald Duckworth & Co
“A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.”
“Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.”
“The blues are real important. It's where most of the hard rock n' roll came from.”
“And took for truth the test of ridicule.”
“Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.”
“It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.”

Source : "The week in one-liners" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. April 8, 2011.
“The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”

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