1910s Music Quotes

#1. A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections.

Dorothy Simpson

#2. The other, more serious problem associated with cosmetic surgery is that conventional treatments often give people a very unnatural, blank, or stretched look. Wiping all the character from a person's face is the most profound form of identity theft I can imagine.

Marie-Veronique Nadeau

#3. I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.

Ellen Gilchrist

#4. I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

Alice Eve

#5. Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it.

Linda Buckley-Archer

#7. Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views

Gautama Buddha

#8. Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

George Burns

#9. though I leaned against him and tried to meet the kiss and to take it in, I couldn't quite feel it. I couldn't feel us. -

Paula McLain

#10. It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

Havelock Ellis

#11. Uh, guys?" Jenks said, hovering at the window. "Fountain Square is on fire."
"What?" I jumped to my feet and turned in one motion. Al rushed to the window, and we pressed our foreheads to the glass, looking down.

Kim Harrison

#12. It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

Laetitia Casta

#13. My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.

John Updike

#14. The power of belief is that is should change lives not create chains.

Johnnie Dent Jr.