Richard Blackmore

The mare set off for home with the speed of a
swallow, and going as smoothly and silently.
I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent
and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze
flitting over the flowers, but swift as the
summer lightening.

Aleister Crowly

I was not content to believe in a personal
devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense
of the word. I wanted to get hold of him
personally and become his chief of staff.

Louis L'Amour

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man
who angers, for each rage leaves him less
than he had been before - it takes something
from him.

Lao Tzu

All difficult things have their origin in that
which is easy, and great things in that which
is small.

Joe Hill

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't
waste any time in mourning - organize.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Have you heard that it was good to gain the
day? I also say it is good to fall, battles
are lost in the same spirit in which they
are won.

Lou Reed

I always thought martial arts was the most modern
choreography we could have right now, and I always
wanted to put it to music.

Bono

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down,
if we really accepted that Africans were equal
to us, we would all do more to put the fire out.
We're standing around with watering cans, when
what we really need is the fire brigade.

Oscar Peterson

Some people try to get very philosophical
and cerebral about what they're trying to
say with jazz. You don't need any prologues,
you just play.

Ambrose Bierce

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way,
commonly with the property of another.

William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a
wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Miles Davis

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his
mind and won't change the subject.

Denis Leary

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and
combine them into one country and call it
Irate. All the pissed off people live in
one place and get it over with.

Johnny Cash

How well I have learned that there is no
fence to sit on between heaven and hell.
There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and
in that chasm is no place for any man.

Sarah Vaughan

When I sing, trouble can sit right on my
shoulder and I don't even notice.

Hugh Hefner

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Constantly risking absurdity and death
whenever he performs above the heads of
his audience, the poet, like an acrobat,
climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his
own making.

Jimi Hendrix

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Kahlil Gibran

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest,
with visions to be realized, than lord among
those without dreams and desires.

J.S. Bach

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be
an idiot on my own accord.

Czeslaw Milosz

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor,
Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds.
I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this:
To glorify things just because they are.

Bonnie Raitt

Religion is for people who are scared to go
to hell. Spirituality is for people who have
already been there.

Dolly Parton

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Malcolm X

Education is the passport to the future, for
tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Al Capone

Capitalism is the legitimate racket
of the ruling class.

Benny Hill

Girls are like pianos. When they're not
upright, they're grand.