Top 100 Coleman Quotes
#2. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
Ornette Coleman
#4. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.
Dal LaMagna
#5. A bridge has no allegiance to either side.
Les Coleman
#7. Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth - it's the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.
T.K. Coleman
#9. You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
Norm Coleman
#10. To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
Cy Coleman
#11. Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.
Jerry Coleman
#13. I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.
Coleman Barks
#14. The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.
Jack Coleman
#17. I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.
Lucille Ball
#18. There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts ... it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.
David Coleman
#19. You're not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are responsible for how you react to what happens to you. You either stay on your knees or you get up. Those are your choices.
Eileen Cruz Coleman
#20. The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.
Jerry Coleman
#21. It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.
Jerry Coleman
#22. As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
Jim Coleman
#23. Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses, so that the masses could at last be saved. This was the genius of his strategy.
Robert Emerson Coleman
#24. The only thing my mother would say about my music-I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are.
Ornette Coleman
#25. Yes Serge has killed a lot of people , but let's not overlook all of his other accomplishments.
Tim Dorsey
#26. I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.
Cy Coleman
#27. Sleep deficit and an anemic pocketbook dictate my erratic lifestyle.
Wanda Coleman
#29. I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy.
Jack Coleman
#31. And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.
Jerry Coleman
#32. Let us never forget that terrorism at its heart, at its evil heart, is a psychological war. It endeavors to break the spirit and the resolve of those it attacks by creating a lose-lose situation.
Norm Coleman
#33. You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.
Jerry Coleman
#34. You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.
Jerry Coleman
#35. That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate.
Rowan Coleman
#36. Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
Cy Coleman
#38. And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
David Coleman
#39. This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.
David Coleman
#40. I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Ornette Coleman
#41. Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
Gary Coleman
#42. Upon patterned cushions that might have been honked, zig by zag, out of Ornette Coleman's horn, the odalisque exposed her flesh to a society that had grown frightened again of flesh.
Tom Robbins
#43. That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
Ornette Coleman
#45. When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads
Miles Davis
#46. 'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.
Monique Coleman
#47. Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
Ornette Coleman
#48. But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
Jim Coleman
#49. Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.
Jerry Coleman
#50. Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
Slash Coleman
#51. It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming - and because of that, the beginners feel like they're professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.
Ornette Coleman
#52. The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.
Jerry Coleman
#53. I think you're an acting teacher in disguise You're so incredibly intuitive and always passionate and always driven to go further. I never had to worry. All I had to do was look at you, babe.
Chad Coleman
#54. The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
A. D. Coleman
#55. I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
Chad Coleman
#56. The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.
Scott Westerfeld
#57. I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.
Oscar Peterson
#58. If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
Jerry Coleman
#59. The thing with Rubik's cubes, sometimes you make them worse when you try to fix them. I didn't want to make her worse, and I also didn't know how to make her better.
K.A. Coleman
#60. I think it's the people that you work with who change you the most.
Jenna Coleman
#61. It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.
Chris Coleman
#63. If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.
Jenna-Louise Coleman
#64. I'm seein' the syphilitic afterbirth of a Mongolian clusterfuck, is what I see there.
Joe Coleman
#65. I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
Dabney Coleman
#67. And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.
Jim Coleman
#68. To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!
Dabney Coleman
#69. Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.
James S. Coleman
#70. [Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity ... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral ...
Coleman Barks
#71. There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Coleman Young
#72. I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife and my step-son, or my daughter and my ex, I'm that guy in the middle, and I try to make sure we all stay together.
Chad Coleman
#73. Being a mother is about protecting your children from every conceivable thing that might cause them hurt, but it's also about trusting them to live the best way for them, the best way they can; and trusting that even when you are not there to hold their hand, they can succeed.
Rowan Coleman
#74. Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.
Ornette Coleman
#75. A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!
Cannonball Adderley
#76. Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.
Eliot Coleman
#77. In fact that's Swindon's first win of any kind in nine matches
David Coleman
#78. A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
James S. Coleman
#79. Andrew Lincoln has to be the nicest, ego-less lead actor that I've ever met in my life. His energy and temperament just falls over everyone.
Chad Coleman
#80. I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
Dabney Coleman
#81. To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
Ornette Coleman
#82. The key to Christian success is adherence and obedience to him, his Word, and his purposes for life.
Jack Coleman
#83. To be honest, I don't think there's any other show like 'Doctor Who' at all.
Jenna-Louise Coleman
#84. I know that in order for something to work for me it has to be extremely powerful.
Ronnie Coleman
#85. The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
Dabney Coleman
#86. A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem.
Norm Coleman
#87. Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
Norm Coleman
#88. There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think ... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.
Dabney Coleman
#89. Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
Jerry Coleman
#90. All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
Ornette Coleman
#91. Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.
Ronnie Coleman
#92. As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
Wanda Coleman
#93. Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world - Los Angeles in the '50s - they made perfect sense.
Wanda Coleman
#94. There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.
Jerry Coleman
#95. The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
Elizabeth Coleman
#96. Finding the right woman is a lot like ridin' a bull. You'll know in a little over eight seconds whether they're worth a second ride or not. And, as you know, the best ones usually buck you off a few times before givin' you the ride of your life."
-Coleman Cade
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#97. I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
Jim Coleman
#98. I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.
Cy Coleman
#99. Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
Coleman Barks
#100. Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.
Jerry Coleman
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