"jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force."

-- Anais Nin

#Music Quotes #Self Quotes #Expression Quotes

“A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.49
“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”
“There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So you have let something else speak... so I can't really remember which comes first, the dialogue or the pictures. It comes from that place where it sort of all comes together on its own.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.”

Source : "A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Volume I". Book by John Mackinnon Robertson, 1906.
“The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.”

Source : "Tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.
“Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.”

Source : Clare B. Dunkle (2006). “The Hollow Kingdom: Book I -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy”, p.11, Macmillan
“I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.”
“There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.”

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