Jamboree Quotes

#1. The campfires provide enough plain old regular visible light to show this sorry affair for what it is: a bunch of demented Boy Scouts, a jamboree without merit badges or hygiene.

Neal Stephenson

#2. I saw Elvis live in '54. It was at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas and the first thing, he came out and spit on the stage ... it affected me exactly the same way as when I first saw that David Lynch film. There was just no reference point in the culture to compare it to.

Roy Orbison

#3. Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are having a jamboree behind the wainscot.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. The longer you hold onto an apology, the harder it is to give.

David Arnold

#5. Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

Dick Gregory

#6. The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that's reporting, not art, that TV, not art, that's magaziney art, not art. Art gives you so personal an interpretation that it compels you to say, This here is more real than what I know is really out there.

Andre Aciman

#7. The older I get, the harder it is to splurge without consequences. I love food. Chocolate and cheese and anything that's bad for me. I'll be really good when I'm at home so I can eat what I want to when I'm out with friends.

Carrie Underwood

#8. Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

Muhammad Yunus

#9. Hate has always been the blinder used by those who own slaves. It allows those they enslave to only see those who escaped the yoke, and not the one that sits holding the reins. The moment you hear anyone fear-mongering and pointing fingers, you should look for the shackle on your ankle." "Don't

Wen Spencer

#10. I find that one must accept the people in such a way as they are.

Michelle Hunziker

#11. With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Joe Orton

#12. Peace is possible, and it will take a miracle.

Robyn Short

#13. Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain.

Daphne Du Maurier

#14. Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

George Eliot