Peter C. Doherty Quotes
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.
Peter C. Doherty
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
Otis Rush
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
Zoe Kazan
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E. L. Konigsburg
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
Esperanza Spalding
I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.
Brendon Urie
Panic! at the Disco
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
Bill Vaughan
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.
Peter C. Doherty