King Oliver Quotes

#1. I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp ... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

Eric Clapton

#2. I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that ... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

Clint Eastwood

#3. Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

Thomas Carlyle

#4. So what did you bring? Lip gloss and a hairbrush?"
Smirking, she unpacked the sandwiches Mort's cook had made for her, along with an ample slice of chocolate cake. "You owe me an apology."
"Omigod, it's a feast! Okay, you're forgiven.

Jana Oliver

#5. Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ... A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

Pablo Casals

#6. What once was broken can be fixed." Boone lifted the angel with the number eighteen at her feet. I could still see every crack from the break, but she was fixed. "It'll always bear the scars, but at least it's whole again.

Nicole Williams

#7. Every contact leaves a trace.Everyhting and everyone we touch is changed in some way.But the changes,they are never what we anticipate.

Jeff Lindsay

#8. If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.

Tyson Fury

#9. Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

Oliver Goldsmith

#10. The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

Jerry Hall

#11. Sire," Oliver said as he helped Petunia to her feet, "I'd like to marry Petunia.
"Of course you would," retorted the King Gregor. "But not right now! we just got those two taken care of." He pointed to the twins who were still trying to play Christian's odd game. "And weddings are expensive!

Jessica Day George

#12. The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

Kerri Walsh

#13. The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

George Bancroft

#14. What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part.
Yet what can I give Him?
I give Him my heart.

Christina Rossetti

#15. If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

Oliver Cromwell

#16. The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

#17. Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You're an improbable person, and so am I.

Douglas Preston

#18. Long is the journey homeward, Weary and worn are we. Oh, if I fall behind, my love, Will you look back for?

Sofia Samatar

#19. It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.

Homer

#20. At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.

Charlie Brooker

#21. There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

William Macneile Dixon

#22. I wear my mistakes like badges of honor, and I celebrate them.

Amy Schumer

#23. I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

Jessie Ware