"I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!"

-- Jerome Richardson

#Trying Quotes #One Day Quotes #Said Quotes

“I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.”
“Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.”
“Problems are hidden opportunities and constraints can actually boost creativity. If you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.”
“Maybe [Sodom and Gomorrah] isn't really about homosexuality, but about rape. If the angels had been female, and the men of Sodom said they wanted to 'know' them against their will, would people claim that the story shows heterosexuality is a sin?”
“What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?”
“Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.”
“The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated
“It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.”

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