We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.
writing, like living, is lonely work.
Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.
how often I longed to lovingly administer release!. . . to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.
A horse to one who loves him is a cure for many ills.
We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.
It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.
I don't know if Hillary [Clinton] was saying it in a sarcastic manner, but I'm very proud to have the endorsement of the NRA.
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.
I heard there are no male sidhe-seers. " Where did you hear that?" Around. " And which one of those are you in doubt about Ms. Lane?" Which one of what?" Whether I see the Fae, or whether I'm a man. I believe I've laid your mind to rest on the former; shall I relieve it on the latter?" He reached for his belt. Oh, please. " I rolled my eyes. "You're a leftie, Barrons. " Touche, Ms. Lane," he murmered.
I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.