Myles Downey Quotes

#1. It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.

Damien Chazelle

#2. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Patrick Ness

#3. I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

Frank Turner

#4. In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided.

Hermann Hesse

#5. Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

Adam Mansbach

#6. I get in my golf cart with my dogs, I have five dogs.

Delta Burke

#7. Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

Frederick Lenz

#9. The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

John Ashcroft

#10. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.b

Barack Obama

#11. My words travelled through my veins which hung in the sky like telephone wires.

Annabel Pitcher

#12. A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Seth Godin

#13. In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.

Victoria Chang

#14. I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

Ioan Gruffudd

#15. The lines in her face were deep enough to hide gravel in.

Dennis Lehane