Quotes About 1920s Jazz

#1. I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

Ed Speleers

#2. Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

Douglas Adams

#3. The respect one gets in the forces by virtue of the 'rank' is not absolute. 'True respect' is the one that is earned by virtue of actions, experience, knowledge and demeanor.

Rajat Mishra

#4. ( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.

Joshua Zeitz

#5. Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

William Kennedy

#6. The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we ought to call what we were doing 'Negro music'. But it's too late for that now.

Duke Ellington

#7. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

Judith Lewis Herman

#8. I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.

Kirstin Leigh

#9. The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

Shannen Doherty

#11. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12. Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

William Kennedy

#13. Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.

Anne Rice

#14. Till there is the Sun, shall not dew parish

Aftab Alam

#15. Become a very cautious consumer scrutinizing everything that you allow into your mind and body.

Bryant McGill

#16. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.

James A. Garfield

#17. I know my whole life has been like that, you know, scrappy, fighting for everything you get in life and you appreciate it more.

Sean Hannity

#18. The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

Janis Karpinski