Adducing Def Quotes

#1. So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

Bertrand Russell

#2. I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

Jack White

#3. Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Katherine Anne Porter

#4. What is it in our world that breeds such howling despair?

Rene Denfeld

#5. It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt.
After all, hell is supposed to be hot.

Holly Black

#6. We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

Helen Thomas

#7. It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#8. Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

Caroline Kennedy

#9. I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.

Kevin Mitnick

#10. My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

Michael Franti

#11. It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.

John D. MacDonald

#12. Be a Girl with a Mind,
a Woman with Attitude,
and a Lady with Class

Anonymous

#13. I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

Ike Turner