Miles Davis Quotes

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Miles Davis

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Audience

• I don't mind a bikini bottom.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Mind
  • Bottom
  • Bikini

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Cool

• The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks Doth practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Sex
  • Clever

• I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? 'You said nothing,' you tell me, 'and this cause was lost through you.' You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.

  

  Lawyer
  • Lost

• I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Small
  • Ego

• What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!

  

  Jane Austen

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Legend

• Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.

  

  Outkast
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Dance

• If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

  

  Charles Dickens

• But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Men

• Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Adventure

• 'Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,' Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter’s, 'you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter’s wheel.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Luck

• As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we don't understand. There's a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Work
  • Black
  • Ignore

• If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Government
  • Failure
  • Slavery

• Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Inspiring
  • Capacity
  • Same Mistakes

• Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

  

  Miles Davis
  • Ignorance
  • Slavery