Superb Performance Quotes

#1. Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#2. I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.

Billy Graham

#3. I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

Christine Keeler

#4. I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

Danny Trejo

#5. Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

Gerald Vizenor

#6. And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.

Terry Pratchett

#7. The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

Jose Parla

#8. Maybe on day I can be just as lazy as you and turn off lights without moving."
"That's something to aspire to."
... "God, you're so modest."
"Modesty is for saints and losers. I'm neither."
"Wow, Daemon, just wow.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Alan Parsons

#10. any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority. If you want your boss to do you a favor, you

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

Deepak Chopra

#12. A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

Whitney Balliett

#13. Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.

Phill Jupitus