Shirley Horn Quotes

#1. I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

Erica Tazel

#2. It was like a software if/then routine: If checkflag RitajoinsPT =true, then end. Else continue routine: FuckingIsoPush-Ups

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#3. Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

Shirley Horn

#4. It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.

Shirley Horn

#5. Painted on shirts went over so well I thought, why not painted on pants? Well, the big shot manager at Krusty Burger didn't agree!

Matt Groening

#6. If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.

Don Hutchison

#7. All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.

Amy Reed

#8. Let me whisper it. Let me sigh it. Let me sing it, my dear or I will cry it.

Shirley Horn

#9. The misfortune we sometimes view as punishment is really just the natural result of our poor judgment; but it is easier for us to claim mistreatment than to admit to poor judgment.

Debbie Gilliland

#10. And by the way, you clearly don't know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not.

James Patterson

#11. He didn't seem to understand how to accept kindness.

Valerie Ormond

#12. From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that hunted and meant murder.

Adam Nevill

#13. I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.

Shirley Horn

#14. I suddenly knew, in a way I'd never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge.

Amy Lane

#15. Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective.

David K. E. Bruce

#16. When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

Al Roker

#17. There's a place in Paris where I'd like to work one day. It's called the Slow Club.

Shirley Horn

#18. In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

Pete Rozelle

#19. Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

Robert Higgs