Virgil Thomson Quotes

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

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• Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Name
  • Partner

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Value

• If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Car
  • London
  • Bank

• My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Style
  • Everyone
  • Extremist

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Year
  • September
  • Terrorism

• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Death
  • Day
  • Daily

• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Friends
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Religion
  • Christians
  • Jews

• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Home

• My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Mother
  • Football
  • Player

• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Church
  • Beginning
  • Leadership

• As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Hugging

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Looks
  • Dreams
  • Inside

• I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Know
  • See
  • Questions

• Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

  

  Danah Boyd
  • Done
  • Social
  • Network

• I don't want to go anywhere but here. They've treated me well. I don't know how anybody could be treated any better. This is where I want to be, and I'm not going anyplace.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Better
  • Treated

• The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Government
  • Period

• Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and wishes to open the borders for more trades and more immigrants.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Hand
  • Trump
  • Economic

• The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Life
  • Daughter

• In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Social
  • Crush
  • Wit