Mary Lou Williams Quotes

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Mary Lou Williams

Quotes to Explore

The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

G. Willow Wilson
- Women
- Democracy
- Road
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

Gavin Newsom
- Nature
- Right
- Been
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

Jack Ma
- World
- War
- Easy
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

Dacre Montgomery
- Kids
- Passion
- Fire
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

Sachin Bansal
- People
- Small
- Wonder
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

Damon Lindelof
- Good
- You
- Chance