Life Quotes

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played toge...

Wynton Marsalis

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

Wendy McElroy

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing...

W. Somerset Maugham

Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Woflgang Amadeus Mozart

Himself an ugly man, insignificant of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

W. Somerset Maugham

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

W. Somerset Maugham

Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author's musings lead.

Walter Dean Myers

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

Wil McCarthy

505If nothing ever changed, there'd be no such thing as butterflies.

Wendy Mass

Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.

William James Moore

God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up.

Wesley Miller

Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, "More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going to need me.

Wesley Miller

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

Walter Russell Mead

...it is well known that to praise someone whose rivalry you do not dread is often a very good way of putting a spoke in the wheel of someone whose rivalry you do.

W. Somerset Maugham

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recently I keep thinking that this isn’t about the survival of a species. It’s about why we’re never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

Wu Ming-Yi

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convinces ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

William Moyers

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

William R. Manchester

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

W. Somerset Maugham