Papa Emeritus Quotes

#1. We fool ourselves

into thinking

we're strong

then complain

the rest of our lives

crippled by

the consequences.

Barry Gifford

#2. I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

Brownie McGhee

#3. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana

#4. Every man is a moon and has a [dark] side which he turns toward nobody; you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.
-Mark Twain
From introduction to The Amateur.

Edward Klein

#5. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair

#6. Twitter has a several-hour advantage in getting information.

Frank Quattrone

#7. I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.

Neil T. Anderson

#8. Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

Allen Lacy

#9. Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause

Jumping in the Puddles of Life

Loretta Livingstone

#10. I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

Neil Young

#11. It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven year olds.It's another thing to get in the way of a grown man trying to get laid.

Tina Fey

#12. It's the edges of the maps that fascinate ...

David Mitchell

#13. The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

John Henry Jowett

#14. I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

Caroline Shaw