"Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night."

-- Ben Webster

#Night Quotes #Cities Quotes #Kansas City Quotes

“Somebody is going to win & somebody is not, and that's fine... But we will never refuse to participate because we're scared to fail.”
“Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.”
“As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.”
“Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.”
“It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.”

Source : William Cowper Prime (1876). “I Go A-fishing”, p.143
“Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.”

Source : "Fictional character: Doc Delaney". "Come Back, Little Sheba", www.imdb.com. 1952.
“I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.”
“I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.”

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