Artie Shaw Quotes

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

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• And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • People
  • Looking
  • Comeback

• I want to abolish tags like 'comeback' and 'retirement' that are used to define every married female actor. What is the big deal? In Hollywood, every top actor takes a break, has children, and gets back to work.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Work
  • Children
  • Retirement

• As quoted in 'Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback' by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Sweet
  • Comeback

• Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of British Petroleum they are not telling you the truth. That's the bottom-line.

  

  Anthony Weiner
  • Truth

• In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Up
  • Comeback

• I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Training

• I don't have any particular desire to see words making a comeback. They are of their era, after all, and that is their identity - they form part of the linguistic color of a period.

  

  David Crystal
  • Words
  • Desire
  • Period

• Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.

  

  John Boehner
  • Good
  • True
  • Comeback

• It's been cool to have my name mentioned when people say R&B is on the comeback and I'm the leading person. If you had told me at 16 that I would be that person - you're lying.

  

  Ella Mai
  • People
  • Cool
  • Comeback

• Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet.

  

  Lorde
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Swing

• Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Kid
  • Prove
  • Comeback

• I took a swing early and I let it go pretty good, and I felt fine, ... After that, I took my chances.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Baseball

• With the comeback of the 3-4 defense, like with Ray Lewis in Baltimore, they've had to learn to play a totally different game. And nobody plays all the time, so obviously they aren't going to have the same impact.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Time
  • Different
  • Game

• What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Long
  • Worried
  • Comeback

• Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.

  

  Matthew Brett Cardona
  • She
  • Night
  • Girlfriend

• I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.

  

  Count Basie
  • Band
  • Cutting
  • I Think

• I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Swing
  • Mozart

• Come back. Join us when you're ready and we're ready to go on with you -- or without you.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Comeback
  • Go On

• Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Kids
  • Car
  • Politics

• I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Universe

• Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

  

  Carol Roth
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Environment
  • Audience
  • Artists

• People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Inspiration

• Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Comeback
  • Swing