Carla Bley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
-
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
-
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
-
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
-
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
-
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
-
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
-
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
-
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
-
I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
-
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
-
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
-
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.
-
It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
-
I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
-
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
-
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
-
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
-
I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
-
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.
-
I write very slowly.
