Grover Washington Quotes

#1. Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Kenny G

#2. I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Steven Wright

#3. The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Annie Besant

#4. Sophie found philosophy doubly exciting because she was able to follow all the ideas by using her own common sense - without having to remember everything she had learned at school. She decided that philosophy was not something you can learn; but perhaps you can learn to think philosophically.

Jostein Gaarder

#5. The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

Lionel Shriver

#7. The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.

Evan Esar

#8. Moorehead is one of those sad people who go into teaching so they can be worshipped by the only people sadder than they are - students.

Josh Lieb

#9. [ ... ]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.

Henry Miller

#10. In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

Publilius Syrus

#11. There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Salman Khan

#12. I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Tim Berners-Lee

#13. One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate - disgusting behavior!

Sei Shonagon