Wayne Shorter Quotes
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.
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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
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My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
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I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.
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The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
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The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
