Gaussen Hamner Quotes

#1. The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

Shana Alexander

#2. I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.

John Lloyd Young

#3. There is no top or bottom, no absolute
positioning in space. There are only positions that are relative to the others.
There is an incessant change in the relative positions throughout the universe
and the observer is always at the centre.

Giordano Bruno

#4. Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

George W. Bush

#5. Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

W. Phillip Keller

#6. Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.

Esther Vilar

#7. Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Peter De Vries

#8. People reach an age ... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

Binyavanga Wainaina