Scott Joplin Quotes

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Scott Joplin

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• Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Drinking
  • Melancholy
  • Indeed

• I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • More
  • Feet
  • Panic

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Melancholy

• Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Violence
  • Horror
  • Panic

• In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Expression

• Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not that it needed it. Every note sounded perfect as it whispered out of the strings. “Do you remember?” “No.” She felt a pure burst of something that wasn’t quite panic, wasn’t quite excitement. “Does that mean they have Protection?” He hesitated for about a second, just long enough for her to know he was surprised. “You mean condoms?” he asked. “Doesn’t everybody?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Long
  • She
  • Remember

• It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Good
  • Women
  • Deep

• If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Wall
  • Wall Street
  • Main Street

• The American public no longer has confidence in Wall Street and we've got to change that.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • American
  • Change
  • Confidence

• I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Atmosphere
  • Pity

• I'm a procrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Done
  • Panic

• I don't think we have to enter into panic.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Don't Think
  • Panic
  • Enter

• Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

  

  Aristotle
  • Divine
  • Poets
  • Melancholy

• You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Panic

• For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Pleasure
  • Melancholy
  • Drag

• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Winter

• Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

  

  Scott Joplin
  • Melancholy
  • Panic
  • Wall Street