Yusef Lateef Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
-
It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
-
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
-
I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
-
Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
-
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
-
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
-
Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
-
I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
-
Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
-
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
-
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
-
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
-
You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
-
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
-
I've always danced. I've always been around it.
-
What drew me to this job is that Univision is a brand unlike any other in all of media. Univision has the highest brand affinity of any brand, and that includes Microsoft and Apple and some of the iconic brands in all of industry.
-
It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
-
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
-
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
-
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
-
How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!
-
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
-
Loveless moments are to be avoided.
