Victrola Quotes

#1. Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

Mike Stoller

#2. The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal and Squabble.
Or else, get drunk. America knows no other devices to enable its inhabitants to endure either their own company or that of their fellow-creatures.

Aleister Crowley

#3. We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

Jay McShann

#4. My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

Jimmy Buffett

#5. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin.

J.K. Rowling

#6. Let's also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute and unique potential of the human future.

Edward O. Wilson

#7. She was, in fact, beginning very much to wonder that she had ever thought him pleasing at all; and his sight was so inseparably connected with some very disagreeable feelings, that, except in a moral light, as a penance, a lesson, a source of profitable humiliation to her own mind, she would have

Jane Austen

#8. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#9. God took the hard rocks at the bottom of my pit and stacked them up high, creating something beautiful for His glory.

Diane Cunningham

#10. Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#11. All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

Travis Barker

#12. To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Charles Lamb

#13. Now me," said Mr. Vandemar.
"What number am I thinking of?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

James Jeans

#15. Nobody is happy all the damn time. It doesn't work like that. But if you are more happy than sad then maybe you aren't barely existing

Tammy Faith

#16. My process differs ... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.

Ethan Hawke

#17. The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

Elizabeth Goudge