Prestigious Ivory Quotes

#1. Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94]

Anne Lamott

#2. I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.

B.B. King

#3. The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Voltaire

#4. In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

Emily Procter

#5. I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

Joe Zawinul

#6. Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Suzanne Finnamore

#7. Always Remember ... Once You Give Up Your Rights, You Can Never Get Them Back. Once You Turn On That Police State, You Can Never Turn It Off.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.

Paulo Coelho

#9. I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Jose Marti