"I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star."

-- David Sarnoff

#Proverbial Quotes

“Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.”

Source : William Maginn (1855). “The Odoherty papers”, p.137
“So one day he found her crying Coiled up on the dirty ground Her prince finally came to save her & the rest you can figure out But it was a trick & the clock struck twelve Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick or the wolf's gonna blow it down Keep your feet on the ground When your head's in the clouds”
“I don't mind my hand shaking so much; it improves my S cast.”
“What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.”
“Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But with my Houston Rockets teammates, even though we're friends, we cannot ask each other about everything.”
“I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.”
“In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'”

Source : "Q&A with Sesame Workshop Founder Joan Ganz Cooney". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. February 3, 2009.

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