Quotes About Fats Waller

#1. And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Paul McCartney

#2. singing the songs of the old masters. Fats Waller's 'Ain't That A Shame', Chuck Berry's

Chris Dolan

#3. This is so nice, it must be illegal.

Fats Waller

#4. I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!

Fats Waller

#5. Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people

Bill Nye

#6. Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

Samantha Power

#7. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.

Michael Dirda

#9. Witchcraft is an intellectual pursuit, resulting in a spiritual and physical reaction.

Dacha Avelin

#10. Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

James Surowiecki

#11. Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.

Fats Waller

#12. You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

Guy Kawasaki

#13. If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

Fats Waller

#14. Beware of giggle grins; they are highly contagious.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

Fats Waller

#16. So easy, when you know how.

Fats Waller

#17. You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit ... Say, who's your mother?

Fats Waller

#18. But just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were

Bram Stoker

#19. Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

Mary Baker Eddy

#20. I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#21. Americans not only smoke more marijuana but also imprison more people for marijuana than any other western industrialized nation.

Eric Schlosser

#22. And then I had to jump back and get my gun. I thought it was in your room."
I glare at him. "My gun was in my room. Yours wasn't, because you took it from me this afternoon."
"Because I couldn't find it in your -

Rysa Walker

#23. ...when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.

~ Fiona MacCarrick ~

Kresley Cole