Drum Major Quotes

#1. We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Robert Benchley

#2. Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Irving Langmuir

#4. Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

Jonathan Turley

#5. A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Mark Twain

#6. He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man.

Anonymous

#7. One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Ella Maillart

#8. Every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness.

John Steinbeck

#9. There's actually a term for this - "hedonic adaptation." When good things happen, we bake them very quickly into our baseline expectations,

Dan Harris

#10. The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. If you want to be successful, begin to work zealously and persistently

Sunday Adelaja

#12. If I had a choice, I wouldn't be here ... I wouldn't be anywhere.

Faraaz Kazi

#13. We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

Peter S. Beagle

#15. But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

Rick Allen

#16. Vampires are always going to be sexy.

Jake Abel

#17. If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

Bell Hooks

#18. Vivian was an eccentric who not only marched to her own drummer but was usually the drum major of the crazy parade

Jenn McKinlay