Top 100 Quotes About Dorsey
#1. In life comes:Tradgey,Power,Pride,Faith
Author, Regina Dorsey tells her life story of how it was.
Regina Dorsey
#2. The suits made hits and created stars because they knew something. The suits had been around the block and back, having experienced, firsthand, everyone from Jimmy Dorsey to Jimi Hendrix to Jeff Buckley to J. Lo. I trusted them because they earned that trust, at least on a purely musical level.
Anonymous
#3. Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders ... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who the hell isn't difficult when you get drunk.
Dick Haymes
#4. Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey - a flip comment but also a sincere and deeply significant one.
James Kaplan
#5. I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.
Jimmy Griffin
#6. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,
George Hodgman
#7. I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
Ken Curtis
#8. You're allowed to feel whatever you want. - Jason Dorsey
Jasinda Wilder
#9. I'll support whatever you decide. I'll
help you any way I can. What's mine is
yours, okay? If you need something, I'll make sure you have it, however I have to get it.
Jason Dorsey
Jasinda Wilder
#10. Mark Twain said, "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." Dorsey Bing said, "I'll take womankind's greatest blessing: more wine.
CeCe Osgood
#11. Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.
Louie Bellson
#12. He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.
Nelson Riddle
#13. We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.
Jay McShann
#14. My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.
Frank Sinatra
#15. I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.
Ellen Ochoa
#16. Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
Jimmy Griffin
#17. I can't promise you forever, because that's not long enough. - Jason Dorsey
Jasinda Wilder
#18. You're my woman. Of course
I'm responsible for you. It's my highest duty in life to take care of you, protect you. -Jason Dorsey
Jasinda Wilder
#19. Dorsey was out of her league. When a woman like Kay Waverley took you on over a man, you were done for. It was the scandal of the season and all of Monte Carlo agreed; poor little Dorsey wasn't handling it well.
Kathleen Tessaro
#20. Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.
Jack Dorsey
#21. I'm a one-hundred-percent, made-in-Florida, dope-smugglin', time-sharin', spring-breakin', log-flumin', double-occupancy discount vacation. I'm a tall glass of orange juice and a day without sunshine. I'm the wind in your sails, the sun on your burn and the moon over Miami. I am the native.
Tim Dorsey
#22. I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.
Candas Jane Dorsey
#23. Worry is usually interest paid on a debt that never comes due.
Tim Dorsey
#24. I smell panic," said Serge. "These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.
Tim Dorsey
#25. The most exciting holidays are the ones where not everybody is going to make it.
Tim Dorsey
#26. Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!
Tim Dorsey
#27. Yes Serge has killed a lot of people , but let's not overlook all of his other accomplishments.
Tim Dorsey
#28. Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
George Amos Dorsey
#29. I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
Omar Dorsey
#30. Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.
Tim Dorsey
#31. As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.
Jack Dorsey
#32. Build what you want to see in the world.
Jack Dorsey
#34. Florida is a paradox that way, one of the youngest states, yet with some of the oldest European settlements. And this particular section of the northeast shore was home to a couple of the earliest sixteenth-century Spanish and French fortifications.
Tim Dorsey
#35. At work, he pretended every woman customer was a floozy with a hard-luck story who only needed a good slapping.
Tim Dorsey
#36. Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.
Tim Dorsey
#37. It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
Jack Dorsey
#38. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.
Tim Dorsey
#40. IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
Jack Dorsey
#41. What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
Jack Dorsey
#42. You told me once
about how they used
to build whole city states
out of poems
how everything you see here
is made out of
the bones of dreams
how having a stiff
drink with lorca meant
you had to write
everything down right away
lately the words just
won't come
John Dorsey
#43. When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
Jack Dorsey
#44. Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.
Tim Dorsey
#45. Two preppies from the University of South Florida tried to hit on her with cocaine jokes. Sharon
Tim Dorsey
#46. A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida.
Then it got weird.
Tim Dorsey
#47. My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?
Tim Dorsey
#48. What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
Jack Dorsey
#49. Serge bowed his own head and closed his eyes God, please protect us from your followers. Amen
Tim Dorsey
#50. my life's motto: If you're not willing to invent cool-sounding bullshit about yourself, don't expect others to.
Tim Dorsey
#51. You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting. You don't have to start from scratch to have a massive impact on the world. You have to have a good idea. You have to convince other people of those good ideas. And you have to push as quickly as possible.
Jack Dorsey
#52. Far too quickly we grow into jaded adults and lose our appreciation for silliness.
Tim Dorsey
#53. Impossible' isn't in my vocabulary, said Serge.
Tim Dorsey
#54. Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
Omar Dorsey
#55. Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.
Gail Ann Dorsey
#56. Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination.
Tim Dorsey
#57. You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
Jack Dorsey
#58. Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
#59. Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there's a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you're writing or editing and get in the mode of editing.
Jack Dorsey
#60. Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless.
Jack Dorsey
#61. I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
Jack Dorsey
#62. I go over my own escape routes all the time. To survive in this state, you have to think like the French Resistance.
Tim Dorsey
#64. Yes, give us books about the psychotic behavior and peripheral weirdness we see all around every day
and we will laugh in its face.
We are a proud people.
We are Floridians.
Tim Dorsey
#65. I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
Jack Dorsey
#66. What do they mean 'serial killers'! said Serge. (person 1), okay. But (person 2) was self-defence and the (person 3)-I mean, that was the World Series! You can call me a murderer, fair is fair, but as soon as you put 'serial' in front of it, everyone automatically thinks your crazy.
Tim Dorsey
#68. That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio.
Tim Dorsey
#69. Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation ... 15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.
Jack Dorsey
#70. Every nation, every human being that came across earth had a song and sang in some way to their God.
Thomas A. Dorsey
#71. The path is always right beneath your feet.
Issan Dorsey
#73. As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.
George Amos Dorsey
#74. Hang on to your dreams with everything you got. Because the best life is when your dreams come true. The second-best is when they don't but you never stop chasing them.
Tim Dorsey
#75. The common good," said Serge. "It's not hip.
Tim Dorsey
#77. Gasparilla is Tampa's annual heritage festival, and Tampa's heritage appears to be about alcohol.
Tim Dorsey
#78. Everything we do is about getting people to be more open, more creative, more courageous.
Jack Dorsey
#79. Life's too important to learn new clocks, so I unplug them all and get on with the plot.
Tim Dorsey
#80. Tampa's Latin quarter, Ybor City. Ybor had been the Cuban-Italian core when Tampa was Cigar City USA.
Tim Dorsey
#81. A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
Jack Dorsey
#82. My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
Omar Dorsey
#83. Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.
Tim Dorsey
#84. Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
Omar Dorsey
#85. Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must
Tim Dorsey
#86. My mom cares that I tweeted a picture of my breakfast. She's knows I'm eating and I'm safe.
Jack Dorsey
#87. There, I'm an artist. Thousands of women on ecstasy now want to have three-ways with me.
Tim Dorsey
#88. Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.
Tim Dorsey
#89. The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.
George Amos Dorsey
#91. The last door on the second story was the exception. Fresh gold letters:
MAHONEY & ASSOCIATES, PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS.
Mahoney sat inside. The only associate was the fifth of rye residing in his bottom desk drawer.
Tim Dorsey
#92. South Tampa is the polyp of land that dangles into Tampa Bay like a uvula.
Tim Dorsey
#93. You open a door and find a midget, and there's no way you can be in a bad mood. It's just not possible.
Tim Dorsey
#94. Mount Batten jumped up from his chair and ran yelling across the living room. He broke through the yellow crime scene tape across the front door like a finish line and kept on running. Sharon
Tim Dorsey
#95. We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.
Jack Dorsey
#96. The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.
Jack Dorsey
#97. Serge nodded. 'And I respect your opinion because you smoke marijuana. You're chemically biased against violence and job applications.
Tim Dorsey
#98. Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.
Jack Dorsey
#100. I'm afraid of
a lot of things,
but mostly,
most sincerely,
I am afraid of
being completely
unraveled by you,
and you finding nothing
you want in here.
L M Dorsey
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