Paul Simon Quotes

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

  

  Mark Hamill
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Universe
  • Understanding
  • Study

• The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

  

  James Cromwell
  • Food
  • Health
  • Plant

• The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • World
  • Great
  • May

• So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as I can explore storytelling and human connection through storytelling, I'm quite content.

  

  Dilshad Vadsaria
  • World
  • Long
  • Theatre

• I don't know about you, but I fucked a midget. I have secrets.

  

  Kathy Griffin

• Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Nothing is sadder than love left unheard.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Sadness
  • Left
  • Unheard

• Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Needs

• Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

  

  William Cowper
  • Dog
  • Friendship

• This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Generation

• Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Opportunity
  • Inspiration
  • Genius

• I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

  

  Karl Donitz
  • Without
  • Rheumatism

• I used to worry, 'I've lost my family.' They hated me for a while, but they're very resilient.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Hated
  • Resilient
  • For a while

• The Cisco Unified Communications system is the first true second-generation Internet Protocol (IP) Communications system providing not just telephone services, but rather a rich communications environment that seamlessly integrates voice, video and data collaboration in one system. It is also the first new Cisco system to fully support Cisco SONA, announced in December 2005. Cisco SONA extends the power of the network to optimize applications, processes and resources to deliver greater business benefits to enterprises. By building on Cisco SONA, Cisco Unified Communications leverages network intelligence to greatly simplify the day-to-day challenges of collaboration with colleagues.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Business
  • Power
  • True

• ...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Music Is
  • Communications
  • Avenue