Susannah McCorkle Quotes
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.
Susannah McCorkle
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
Nathan Lane
Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
Fernando Pessoa
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
Karl Marx
Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
W. Somerset Maugham
In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's sexual affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.
Warren Farrell
Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.
W. H. Auden
Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
Billy Rose
Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.
William Blum
I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.
Marc Guggenheim
The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.
Rudolf Arnheim
Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.
Ismail Haniyeh
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.
Susannah McCorkle
