"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."

-- Jay McShann

#Book Quotes #Play Quotes #Turner Quotes

“All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.”
“Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.”
“Adventures are to the adventurous.”
“[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed.”
“No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.”

Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
“I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.”
“Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House
“First fight. Then fiddle.”

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