Quotes About Ebony And Ivory

#1. Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century.

Adrian McKinty

#2. Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

Paul McCartney

#3. It takes more than holding hands and singing 'Ebony and Ivory'.

David Mitchell

#4. Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

Eminem

#5. I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#6. Religion is an illusion and every illusion has the inevitable destiny of a soap bubble!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.

Ann Landers

#8. I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

Patrick Lussier

#9. You're remarkably uninteresting for a flying trollop.

K.J. Charles

#10. If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

Richard Yates

#11. Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.

Joe Lieberman

#12. It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're
born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to
which you resist is the degree to which you are free ...

Utah Phillips

#14. Verbal description of everything, however, must remain infinitely distant from the thing itself, overstatement and understatement sometimes hitting off the truth better than a flat assertion of bare fact.

Anthony Powell

#15. The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

Paul Valery

#16. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

LeBron James

#17. A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines.

James Scott Bell

#18. Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Langston Hughes

#19. My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

Daniel Stern