Top 50 Fairfield Quotes
#1. THERE WERE THREE SKILLS that Miss Emily Fairfield had found necessary in her current position in life: lying, smuggling, and - most important of all - scaling walls. It was the last she'd put to use at the moment.
Courtney Milan
#2. Miss Fairfield had a gift for taking a beautiful concept and then marring it beyond all recognition.
Courtney Milan
#3. I've seen Emily's scars, and that's more than you can say.
Fairfield shrunk back from the anger in Anjan's voice. "I meant well," he whispered.
Anjan leaned forward across the desk until he was an inch from the other man. "Mean better.
Courtney Milan
#4. On the face of it," Vehi Fairfield said finally, "two separate worlds, each unaware of the other. But they always connect someplace.
Thomas Pynchon
#5. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
#6. I never heard such drivel in my life," said Evangeline Fairfield.
It was the most injudicious remark she'd ever made. Arethusa turned on her like a wounded tigress.
Madam, I write such drivel!
Alisa Craig
#7. But bright. So bright. It's a shame you're so impossible, Miss Fairfield, because otherwise, I think I would try for you.
Courtney Milan
#8. Miss Fairfield," he said quietly, "I am not your enemy. Stop treating me as one." Her heart slammed in her breast. "I have no enemies." "That, Miss Fairfield, is bollocks, and you know it. You have only enemies.
Courtney Milan
#9. I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.
Tracy K. Smith
#10. Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.
Simone Elkeles
#11. Fairfield," she said in cutting tones, 'if you had been a hunter on the plains of old, the lions would have killed you while you were wandering around the savannah saying, 'Where is everyone, and what have they done with my spears?
Courtney Milan
#12. I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges
me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up
as drug dealers.
Simone Elkeles
#13. Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.
Fairfield Porter
#14. The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
Frank Fairfield
#15. Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
#16. I feel like there's the people's music, and there's corporate music.
Frank Fairfield
#17. For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.
Frank Fairfield
#18. No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
#19. Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.
Frank Fairfield
#20. No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.
Frank Fairfield
#21. Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.
Frank Fairfield
#22. I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.
Frank Fairfield
#23. I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.
Frank Fairfield
#24. I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.
Frank Fairfield
#25. Essentially any history we have is just a history of aristocrats. We don't have any history of people.
Frank Fairfield
#26. Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
Fairfield Porter
#27. Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest.
Frank Fairfield
#28. I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.
Frank Fairfield
#29. There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
Fairfield Porter
#30. Some people are good cooks and some people are good ... I don't see why you have to do all of that.
Frank Fairfield
#31. Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.
Frank Fairfield
#32. I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.
Frank Fairfield
#33. I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.
Frank Fairfield
#34. I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.
Frank Fairfield
#35. I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.
Frank Fairfield
#37. If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.
Fairfield Porter
#39. I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
#40. Creativity...passion...sweat...heartbreak...inspiration...and lots of hard work...that is what books are made of!
Tara Fairfield
#41. I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.
Frank Fairfield
#42. I didn't have any intention of playing music for a living or anything like that. I was just not doing well in my head or whatever you call it and drinking too much.
Frank Fairfield
#43. I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.
Frank Fairfield
#44. The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory; it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
#46. You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.
Frank Fairfield
#47. I really enjoy playing music. I feel like it's something to try to give to people.
Frank Fairfield
#48. I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.
Frank Fairfield
#49. I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.
Frank Fairfield
#50. There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It can be, but it's just food. It's the thing that people do because they have to, because they need it. I feel music is one of those things, too.
Frank Fairfield
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