Buena Vista Social Club Quotes

#1. Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.

King Krule

#2. If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

Zooey Deschanel

#3. The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#4. You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.

Ringo Starr

#5. Of course I know how to roll a joint.

Martha Stewart

#6. It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. Were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell you
that in my death the light that shone through my painful darkness
was a blinding vision of your eternal smile?
cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very core
as I cling to my memories of you ...

Xavier

#8. The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other ...

Roland Barthes

#9. The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

Melissa Bradley

#10. I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy