Coleman Young Quotes

#1. When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

Dave Morris

#2. Remembering from last year how Haymitch's gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Be friends with Finnick. You'll get food.

Suzanne Collins

#3. Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Coleman Young

#4. It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

Edward L. Glaeser

#5. You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

Coleman Young

#6. Usta be young usta be gifted - still black.

Wanda Coleman

#7. I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

Jerry Coleman

#8. As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.

Herbie Mann

#9. Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Coleman Young

#10. Allow yourself to let go, surrender, and breathe in the beautiful world that is waiting for you just outside of your comfort zone.

Leigh Hershkovich

#11. The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

Sidney Coleman

#12. God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

Saadi

#13. Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

Jerry Coleman

#14. We must take the profit out of prejudice.

Coleman Young

#15. It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

Rich Cohen

#16. You can't look forward and backward ...

Coleman Young

#17. I play so young because of my looks.

Monique Coleman

#18. I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

Coleman Young

#19. If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

Monique Coleman

#20. Racism is like high blood pressure - the person who has it doesn't know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you're a racist than you are.

Coleman Young

#21. Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!

Jerry Coleman

#22. We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

Coleman Young

#23. 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

#24. There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Coleman Young

#25. One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

Jason Lewis

#26. 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