Old Gringo Quotes

#1. Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

Tony Levin

#2. Whatever it is, I sure didn't go lookin fer it.
You don't hafta, she says. If it's meant to be, it'll find you. We like to think we're in charge of our own lives, but we ain't. Not really.

Moira Young

#3. The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.

Roald Dahl

#4. Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

Karan Johar

#5. Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#6. Good-bye
if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

Roxane Gay

#8. People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.

Rayvon Owen

#9. Learning isn't a way of reaching one's potential but rather a way of developing it.

Anders Ericsson

#10. If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#11. I wanna rule my destiny.

Buju Banton