Quotes About Ipanema

#1. The elevator turned out to be slower than the damned train at Disney World. And it played "The Girl from Ipanema" in Muzak. I looked at Paris and saw that he was mouthing the lyrics. That was it. I'd have to plan an intervention for him once we got home.

Leslie Langtry

#2. There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

Harry Connick Jr.

#3. There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

Edgar Winter

#4. I'm only a girl with metaphysical soles.

Haruki Murakami

#5. The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Ken Robinson

#7. Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

Kathryn Harrison

#8. Providing power is the only way forward." She

James Luceno

#9. A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Idries Shah

#10. Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

John Adams

#11. What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

Rand Paul

#12. I did not want to die. More than that, I did not want to die as Ursula Monkton had died, beneath the rending talons and beaks of things that may not even have had legs or faces.

Neil Gaiman

#13. For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.

Ben Schott

#14. Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.

Frederick Lenz

#15. Everything I said was taken from me and altered until the story wasn't my own.

Hannah Kent

#16. Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd
Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours
'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good
After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres.
Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut,
And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

Henry Vaughan

#17. One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

Raymond E. Feist