Distastefully Modified Quotes

#1. My ego only needs a good rhythm section

Miles Davis

#2. I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

Jayma Mays

#3. There's this culture where we celebrate people snapping back into shape a week after the birth, but I don't want to be one of those people - I just want to enjoy Arabella.

Rebecca Ferguson

#4. There should be a course in first grade on love.

Andy Warhol

#5. For the Gnostics and for the fiction writer evil is the source of all moral understanding; the function of evil, in the best of conditions, is tension and imbalance, the eventual creation, through suffering and misfortune, of wisdom.

Susan Neville

#6. Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

Al Pacino

#8. Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

Jerry Greenfield

#9. When a just cause reaches its flood-tide ... whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#10. A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

Erica Jong

#11. Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Billy Cannon

#12. What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. From whom? From misery. From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts.

Victor Hugo

#13. Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief.

V.S. Naipaul

#14. Then I drove over to get my snaked-haired, sharp-tongued, unpredictable, and very perplexing girlfriend, like the besotted sap that I very much was.

Raine Miller