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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Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
Brittany Snow
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.
Marvin J. Ashton
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God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.
Anna Hempstead Branch
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The Federal Reserve places great importance on our relations with the Bundesbank. Few such relationships have been as important, over the decades, in promoting financial stability and prosperity around the world.
Jerome Powell
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My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.
Chris Bohjalian
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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
