many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
Mary Lou Williams
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
John le Carre
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
Jerry Stiller
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Mary Lou Williams
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
John le Carre
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm
I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.
Jerry Stiller
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith