Ahmad Jamal Quotes

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

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• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sexy

• Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Me
  • Accept

• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Understanding
  • Always

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trust

• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Relationship

• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Bird
  • Wings

• It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Temper

• It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Age
  • Parents

• Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Nature

• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Work
  • Death

• With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Doing

• Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • People
  • Love
  • Attention

• Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.

  

  Taliesin
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Friendship

• I say bomb the hell out of them. If there's collateral damage, so be it. They certainly found our civilians to be expendable.

  

  Zell Miller

• Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.

  

  Edward Young

• There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

  

  John Adams
  • Men

• Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Beginning

• I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Grandmother

• As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

  

  Allen Evangelista
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Planet

• We started CapitalSource because large banks were ignoring small to mid-sized businesses, and we saw a big business opportunity as a result.

  

  John Delaney
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• I never mind going in for an audition for something.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Something
  • Going
  • Audition

• I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

  

  Ahmad Jamal