In Chicago, they die for their teams.
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.
You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.
I love to conduct opera.
To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
It might interest you to know," Tully says, "that there's a reason people build miniatures. Doesn't matter if it's guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It's about control. It's about reinventing reality." [...] "Some people...
Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again. 'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies, 'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.' Da...
Mary Wilke: Well tell me, why did you get a divorce? Isaac Davis: Why? I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman. Mary Wilke: Really? God, that must have been really demoralizing. Isaac Davis: Well, I dunno, I thought I took it rat...
Mary Wilke: Don't psychoanalyze me. I pay a doctor for that. Isaac Davis: Hey, you call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don't get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone? Mar...
Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y'know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y'know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them. Party Guest: T...
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
My life is so full of sacrifices.
You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.
Lillian Gorfein: Where's his scrotum?
I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.
I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.
