"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

-- Ethel Mumford

#Memorable Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Persons Quotes

“In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better”
“10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.”

Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
“They lived long that have lived well.”
“I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.”
“Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that - or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur's farm.”

Source : "Richie Havens in his own words" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.
“I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.”
“The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.”

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