Van Morrison Quotes
Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
Van Morrison
Quotes to Explore
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Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.
Oliver Hudson
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He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.
Aeschines
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She with one breath attunes the spheres, And also my poor human heart.
Henry David Thoreau
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I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.
Laurence Sterne
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A novel is not an allegory ... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.
Azar Nafisi
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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
Donna Leon
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Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.
Chris Rock
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It was a very traditional 19th-century house; very old and half the size
Claire Williams
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No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it
leaves me free in ways that belief would not.
Whitley Strieber
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Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.
Allan Sherman
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It is a grand book worthy of one’s hopes of you. A most powerful piece of well organized analysis with high aesthetic qualities, though written more perhaps than you see yourself for the cognoscenti in the temple and not for those at the gate. Anyhow I prefer it for intellectual enjoyment to any recent attempts in this vein.
John Maynard Keynes
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Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
Van Morrison
