Charlie Parker (Yardbird and Bird) Quotes

I look at melody as rhythm.

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• You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Power
  • Happy

• I love dressing up.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Love
  • Dressing

• Changing Myrtle Beach? It makes me feel very good ... If it's changing, it's changing for the positive.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Positive
  • Beach

• I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Singing
  • Forever
  • Broadway

• By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Age
  • Hair

• Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians?

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Good
  • Why
  • Christians

• In the event of failure to uphold international standards, the draft conclusions make it clear that measures such as asset freezes or visa bans could be taken against those responsible.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Taken
  • Failure
  • Responsible

• It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Prisons
  • Prisoners
  • Reformation

• The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Age
  • Person
  • Dreams

• [Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Business

• We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

  

  David Deida
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Darkness

• Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Fighting
  • Balance
  • Response

• Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

  

  Plato
  • Harmony
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

• When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Memories
  • Kissing
  • Melody

• The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

  

  Earle Birney
  • Poetry
  • Rhythm
  • Human Voice

• I look at melody as rhythm.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Rhythm
  • Melody