Matric Jackets Quotes

#1. Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.

Paul Gauguin

#2. Party of the Century by Deborah Davis, about Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball. Capote by Gerald Clarke. Truman Capote by George Plimpton. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson. Slim, the memoir of Slim Keith. And The Sisters by David Grafton, about Babe Paley and her sisters.

Melanie Benjamin

#3. It was one of the charms of the International Zone that you could get anything you wanted if you paid for it. Do anything, too, for that matter; - there were no incorruptibles. It was only a question of price.

Paul Bowles

#4. I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Sammy Hagar

#5. Trei did not stay to look out at the city, but went to find his cousin. He went smiling, and with a lightness to his step almost as though he were flying, for he felt at last that he had, indeed come home.

Rachel Neumeier

#6. I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing
tightrope walking comes immediately to mind
but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

Calvin Trillin

#7. We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

Fred Rogers

#8. We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.

Ajanta

#10. It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

Shirley Horn