"When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words."

-- Billie Holiday

#Play Quotes #Singing Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.”

Source : Iris Johansen (2013). “Eve Quinn Bonnie Trilogy”, p.436, Macmillan
“And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.”
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”
“I would never advise shooing away a good idea.”
“I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.”
“Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.”
“The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.”
“Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.”

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