Old Hickory Quotes

#1. To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Cy Coleman

#2. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.

Anonymous

#3. I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

B.o.B

#4. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Brian Tracy

#5. I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

Gillian Cross

#6. In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

Rick Yancey

#7. Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

Ashwin Sanghi

#8. Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

Jim Diamond

#9. The freedom to choose ... means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.

Caroline Knapp

#10. Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments ...

Seneca.

#11. God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

Richard Brautigan

#12. The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

Joseph Hall

#13. Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Al Pacino

#14. If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!

Dervla Murphy

#15. I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

Martha Plimpton