Sun Ra Quotes

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• To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Game
  • Me

• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Today
  • Political
  • Politics

• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
  • Value
  • Impact

• You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Spiritual

• Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Country
  • Norway

• A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Soul
  • Fashion

• I tend to look for a great script.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Looks
  • Scripts

• When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

  

  Epictetus
  • Hear
  • Philosopher
  • Speaker

• I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Suffer
  • Ostracism

• Land of lost gods and godlike men.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Gods
  • Land
  • Godlike Men

• I think music should be free. I think all communication should be free. I think people should respect artists, and there should be a certain respect for artists who give their music away for free. If your music winds up on Napster and you approve of it, then the person downloading your music should at least go to your concert, should at least purchase your songs.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Song

• Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Universe

• Is a newspaper prints a sex crime, it's smut, but when The New York Times prints it, it's a sociological study.

  

  Adolph Ochs
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Newspaper

• The only difference between comedy and drama is that, in comedy, I'm going to utilize the tool of creating laughter to deflect discomfort and, in drama, I won't use a tool, but we're going to actually deal with the discomfort and see what comes out of it.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Laughter

• It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Place
  • Impossible

• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • History
  • Today

• There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Part
  • Strategies
  • Silences

• It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Motion
  • Notion