Tuesday 4 December 2012

Time For Aristotle Quotes

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." Aristotle

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle

"The law is reason, free from passion." Aristotle

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age." Aristotle

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." Aristotle

"Bad men are full of repentance." Aristotle

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." Aristotle

"Nature does nothing in vain." Aristotle

"We make war that we may live in peace." Aristotle

"The secret to humor is surprise." Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes
Marble bust of Aristotle. Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippus c. 330 BC. The alabaster mantle is modern.

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics.

Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." Aristotle

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst." Aristotle

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle

"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion." Aristotle

"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world." Aristotle

"No one loves the man whom he fears." Aristotle

"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state." Aristotle

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." Aristotle

"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics." Aristotle

"Well begun is half done." Aristotle

"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." Aristotle Quotes

"Change in all things is sweet." Aristotle

"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way." Aristotle

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." Aristotle

"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled." Aristotle

"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly." Aristotle

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." Aristotle

"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken." Aristotle

"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." Aristotle

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes." Aristotle

"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit." Aristotle

"Education is the best provision for old age." Aristotle

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle

"Friendship is essentially a partnership." Aristotle

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." Aristotle

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle

"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." Aristotle

"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully." Aristotle

"He who hath many friends hath none." Aristotle

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness." Aristotle

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." Aristotle

"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil." Aristotle

"The gods too are fond of a joke." Aristotle

"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." Aristotle

"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." Aristotle

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." Aristotle

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." Aristotle

"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends." Aristotle

"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures." Aristotle

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference." Aristotle

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." Aristotle

"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law." Aristotle

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts." Aristotle

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way." Aristotle

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." Aristotle

"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching." Aristotle

"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last." Aristotle

"A true friend is one soul in two bodies." Aristotle

"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one." Aristotle

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." Aristotle

"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully." Aristotle

"All men by nature desire knowledge." Aristotle

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." Aristotle

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered." Aristotle

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle

"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence." Aristotle

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons." Aristotle

"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom." Aristotle

"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." Aristotle

"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth." Aristotle

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." Aristotle

"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication." Aristotle

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness." Aristotle

"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead." Aristotle

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness." Aristotle

"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first." Aristotle

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." Aristotle

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved." Aristotle

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances." Aristotle

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms." Aristotle

"Most people would rather give than get affection." Aristotle

"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye." Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

"Wit is educated insolence." Aristotle

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." Aristotle

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." Aristotle

"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one." Aristotle

"Hope is a waking dream." Aristotle

"Hope is the dream of a waking man." Aristotle

"The end of labor is to gain leisure." Aristotle

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." Aristotle

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." Aristotle

"Man is by nature a political animal." Aristotle

"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life." Aristotle

"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action." Aristotle

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." Aristotle

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." Aristotle

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence." Aristotle

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular." Aristotle

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold." Aristotle

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." Aristotle

"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world." Aristotle

"A friend to all is a friend to none." Aristotle

"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so." Aristotle

"The soul never thinks without a picture." Aristotle

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Time For Michelangelo Quotes

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo

"I live and love in God's peculiar light." Michelangelo

"I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all." Michelangelo

"What do you despise? By this you are truly known." Michelangelo

"Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts." Michelangelo

"Genius is eternal patience." Michelangelo

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture." Michelangelo

"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven." Michelangelo

"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself." Michelangelo

"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born." Michelangelo

Michelangelo Quotes
Portrait of Michelangelo by Jacopino del Conte (after 1535) at the age of 60

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo , was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo's design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification.
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"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it." Michelangelo

"The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows." Michelangelo

"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges." Michelangelo

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master." Michelangelo

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted." Michelangelo

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." Michelangelo

"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." Michelangelo

"I am still learning." Michelangelo

"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has." Michelangelo

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." Michelangelo

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo Quotes

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." Michelangelo

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." Michelangelo

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." Michelangelo

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." Michelangelo

"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand." Michelangelo

"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint." Michelangelo

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." Michelangelo

"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness." Michelangelo

"Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop." Michelangelo

Sunday 18 November 2012

Time For John Wayne Quotes

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." John Wayne

"Get off your butt and join the Marines!" John Wayne

"Get off your horse and drink your milk." John Wayne

"If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'" John Wayne

"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much." John Wayne

"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway." John Wayne

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid." John Wayne

"If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow." John Wayne

John Wayne Quotes
Wayne in Rio Bravo (1959)
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.

Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His first leading role came in the widescreen epic The Big Trail (1930), which led to leading roles in numerous films throughout the 1930s, many of them in the western genre. His career rose to further heights in 1939, with John Ford's Stagecoach making him an instant superstar. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
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"Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much." John Wayne Quotes

Sunday 4 November 2012

Time For Yogi Berra Quotes

"The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra

"I don't mean to be funny." Yogi Berra

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious." Yogi Berra

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." Yogi Berra

"In baseball, you don't know nothing." Yogi Berra

"Even Napoleon had his Watergate." Yogi Berra

"We have deep depth." Yogi Berra

"I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it." Yogi Berra

"Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken." Yogi Berra

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra

Yogi Berra Quotes
Yogi Berra in 1956.

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a former American Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder, and manager. He played almost his entire 19-year baseball career (1946–1965) for the New York Yankees. Berra is one of only four players to be named the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times and is one of seven managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. As a player, coach, or manager, Berra appeared in 21 World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

Berra is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history. According to the win shares formula developed by sabermetrician Bill James, Berra is the greatest catcher of all time and the 52nd greatest non-pitching player in major-league history.

Berra, who quit school after the eighth grade, has a tendency toward clever quips. "It ain't over 'til it's over" is arguably his most famous example, often quoted. Simultaneously denying and confirming his reputation, Berra once stated, "I really didn't say everything I said."
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"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." Yogi Berra

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Yogi Berra

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." Yogi Berra

"Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do." Yogi Berra

"All pitchers are liars or crybabies." Yogi Berra

"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken." Yogi Berra

"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary." Yogi Berra

"I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary." Yogi Berra

"I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better." Yogi Berra

"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face." Yogi Berra

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious." Yogi Berra Quotes

"If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer." Yogi Berra

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." Yogi Berra

"I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four." Yogi Berra

"How can you think and hit at the same time?" Yogi Berra

"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much." Yogi Berra

"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house." Yogi Berra

"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it." Yogi Berra

"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em." Yogi Berra

"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." Yogi Berra

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra

"If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em." Yogi Berra

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." Yogi Berra

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question." Yogi Berra

"Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting." Yogi Berra

"We made too many wrong mistakes." Yogi Berra

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility." Yogi Berra

"If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be." Yogi Berra

"It's fun; baseball's fun." Yogi Berra

"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you." Yogi Berra

"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets." Yogi Berra

"It ain't over till it's over." Yogi Berra

"You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra

"I guess I've got a smart wife." Yogi Berra

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra

"I didn't know much about golf growing up." Yogi Berra

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." Yogi Berra

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true." Yogi Berra

"I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life." Yogi Berra

"I'm glad I was in the Navy." Yogi Berra

"You can observe a lot by just watching." Yogi Berra

"When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra

"I never said most of the things I said." Yogi Berra

"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." Yogi Berra

"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary." Yogi Berra

"It gets late early out there." Yogi Berra

"It's like deja-vu, all over again." Yogi Berra

"If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot." Yogi Berra

"I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France." Yogi Berra

Saturday 20 October 2012

Time For Marilyn Monroe Quotes

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." Marilyn Monroe

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night." Marilyn Monroe

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far." Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course." Marilyn Monroe

"To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation." Marilyn Monroe

"The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any." Marilyn Monroe

"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful." Marilyn Monroe

"I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent." Marilyn Monroe

"I've never dropped anyone I believed in." Marilyn Monroe

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on." Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Quotes
Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s.

After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946 with Twentieth Century-Fox. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950), drew attention. By 1952 she had her first leading role in Don't Bother to Knock and 1953 brought a lead in Niagara, a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness. Her "dumb blonde" persona was used to comic effect in subsequent films such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range. Her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics and garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination and won a David di Donatello award. She received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959). Monroe's last completed film was The Misfits, co-starring Clark Gable with screenplay by her then-husband, Arthur Miller.
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"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress." Marilyn Monroe

"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives." Marilyn Monroe

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere." Marilyn Monroe

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature." Marilyn Monroe

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot." Marilyn Monroe

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it." Marilyn Monroe

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time." Marilyn Monroe

"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing." Marilyn Monroe

"Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered." Marilyn Monroe

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up." Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course." Marilyn Monroe Quotes

"If I'm a star, then the people made me a star." Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs never bite me. Just humans." Marilyn Monroe

"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them." Marilyn Monroe

"I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one." Marilyn Monroe

"Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him." Marilyn Monroe

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful." Marilyn Monroe

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine." Marilyn Monroe

"It's all make believe, isn't it?" Marilyn Monroe

"I restore myself when I'm alone." Marilyn Monroe

"Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one." Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signature

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it." Marilyn Monroe

 "If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." - Marilyn Monroe

Friday 19 October 2012

Time For Jimi Hendrix Quotes

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music." Jimi Hendrix

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes." Jimi Hendrix

"My nature just changes." Jimi Hendrix

"Music is my religion." Jimi Hendrix

"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction." Jimi Hendrix

"When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man." Jimi Hendrix

"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan." Jimi Hendrix

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel." Jimi Hendrix

"In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first." Jimi Hendrix

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite his mainstream exposure being limited to four years. He achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival after initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.

Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver tonal exaggerations in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. Hendrix was a pioneer in experimentation with stereophonic phasing effects in rock music recordings. He was influenced by electric blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James, surf rock guitarist Dick Dale, rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964, through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, he stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".
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"Excuse me while I kiss the sky." Jimi Hendrix

"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running." Jimi Hendrix

"Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts." Jimi Hendrix

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do." Jimi Hendrix

"I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it." Jimi Hendrix

"Music is a safe kind of high." Jimi Hendrix

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix

"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life." Jimi Hendrix

"If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment." Jimi Hendrix

"We have time, there's no big rush." Jimi Hendrix

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky." Jimi Hendrix Quotes

"Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows." Jimi Hendrix

"It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life." Jimi Hendrix

"See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues." Jimi Hendrix

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art." Jimi Hendrix

"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye." Jimi Hendrix

"All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland." Jimi Hendrix

"I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked." Jimi Hendrix

"The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar." Jimi Hendrix

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." Jimi Hendrix

"I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something." Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix's Signature

"You have to give people something to dream on." Jimi Hendrix

"It all has to come from inside, though, I guess." Jimi Hendrix

"Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually." Jimi Hendrix

"When I die, just keep playing the records." Jimi Hendrix

"I try to use my music to move these people to act." Jimi Hendrix

"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded." Jimi Hendrix

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

"I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man." Jimi Hendrix

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to." Jimi Hendrix

"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel." Jimi Hendrix

Sunday 14 October 2012

Time For Bob Marley Quotes

"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say." Bob Marley

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die." Bob Marley

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny." Bob Marley

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." Bob Marley

"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet." Bob Marley

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" Bob Marley

"The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory." Bob Marley

"Man is a universe within himself." Bob Marley

"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight." Bob Marley

"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality." Bob Marley

Bob Marley Quotes
Bob Marley performing in concert, circa 1980.

Nesta Robert Marley, more widely and commonly known as "Bob Marley" OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.

Marley's music was heavily influenced by the social issues of his homeland, and he is considered to have given voice to the specific political and cultural nexus of Jamaica. His best-known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Get Up Stand Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, going ten times Platinum which is also known as one Diamond in the U.S., and selling 25 million copies worldwide.
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"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall." Bob Marley

"You have to be someone." Bob Marley

"Tell the children the truth." Bob Marley

"When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself." Bob Marley

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!" Bob Marley

"The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow." Bob Marley

"None but ourselves can free our minds." Bob Marley

"My future is righteousness." Bob Marley

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open." Bob Marley

"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side." Bob Marley

"None but ourselves can free our minds." Bob Marley Quotes


"I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through." Bob Marley

"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction." Bob Marley

"In this bright future you can't forget your past." Bob Marley

"Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow." Bob Marley

Friday 12 October 2012

Time For Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." Arthur Conan Doyle

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." Arthur Conan Doyle

"We can't command our love, but we can our actions." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Any truth is better than indefinite doubt." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another." Arthur Conan Doyle

"A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so." Arthur Conan Doyle

"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge." Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was English of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They married in 1855. In 1864 the family dispersed due to Charles's growing alcoholism and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in the squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place.
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"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them." Arthur Conan Doyle

"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person." Arthur Conan Doyle

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children." Arthur Conan Doyle

"The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless." Arthur Conan Doyle

"A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem." Arthur Conan Doyle

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained." Arthur Conan Doyle

"I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty." Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." Arthur Conan Doyle


"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." Arthur Conan Doyle

"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge." Arthur Conan Doyle

"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." Arthur Conan Doyle

Thursday 11 October 2012

Time For George Burns Quotes

"Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up." George Burns

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate." George Burns

"You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made." George Burns

"Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair." George Burns

"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty." George Burns

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life." George Burns

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." George Burns

"I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked." George Burns

"At my age flowers scare me." George Burns

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." George Burns

George Burns Quotes
Portrait by Allan Warren, 1986

George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Naftaly Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.

He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three quarters of a century. Beginning at the age of 79, Burns' career was resurrected as an amiable, beloved and unusually active old comedian, continuing to work until shortly before his death, in 1996, at the age of 100.

Naftaly (later called Nathan) Birnbaum was born on January 20, 1896 in New York City, the ninth of 12 children born to Louis "Lippe" and Dorah (née Bluth) Birnbaum, Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from Romania. Burns was also an active member of the First Roumanian-American congregation. His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but usually worked as a coat presser. During the influenza epidemic of 1903, Lippe Birnbaum contracted the flu and died at the age of 47. Nattie (as he was then called) went to work to help support the family, shining shoes, running errands, and selling newspapers.

When he landed a job as a syrup maker in a local candy shop at age seven, he was "discovered," as he recalled long after:
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"Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." George Burns

"I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money." George Burns

"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." George Burns

"Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere." George Burns

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days." George Burns

"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty." George Burns

"I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill." George Burns

"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." George Burns

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there." George Burns

"If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it." George Burns

"I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill." George Burns Quotes

"Be quick to learn and wise to know." George Burns

"Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope." George Burns

"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick." George Burns

"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age." George Burns

"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." George Burns

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples." George Burns

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two." George Burns

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age." George Burns

"I spent a year in that town, one Sunday." George Burns

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." George Burns

"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life." George Burns

"I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something." George Burns

"I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere." George Burns

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate." George Burns

"How can I die? I'm booked." George Burns

"It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere." George Burns

Thursday 20 September 2012

Time For Virginia Woolf Quotes

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." Virginia Woolf

"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do." Virginia Woolf

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality." Virginia Woolf

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." Virginia Woolf

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." Virginia Woolf

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages." Virginia Woolf

"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art." Virginia Woolf

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more." Virginia Woolf

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity." Virginia Woolf

"To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father." Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf Quotes
Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882 to Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson).
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"Language is wine upon the lips." Virginia Woolf

"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?" Virginia Woolf

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way." Virginia Woolf

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works." Virginia Woolf

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life." Virginia Woolf

"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top." Virginia Woolf

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." Virginia Woolf

"I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write." Virginia Woolf

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Virginia Woolf

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." Virginia Woolf


"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves." Virginia Woolf Quotes


"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph." Virginia Woolf

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them." Virginia Woolf

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves." Virginia Woolf

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in." Virginia Woolf

"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly." Virginia Woolf

"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory." Virginia Woolf

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world." Virginia Woolf

"You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort." Virginia Woolf

"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers." Virginia Woolf

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print." Virginia Woolf

"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." Virginia Woolf

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order." Virginia Woolf

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant." Virginia Woolf

"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points." Virginia Woolf

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." Virginia Woolf

"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly." Virginia Woolf

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others." Virginia Woolf

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame." Virginia Woolf

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." Virginia Woolf

"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded." Virginia Woolf

"It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly." Virginia Woolf

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry." Virginia Woolf

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness." Virginia Woolf

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind." Virginia Woolf

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends." Virginia Woolf

"Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic." Virginia Woolf

"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?" Virginia Woolf

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." Virginia Woolf

"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it." Virginia Woolf

"That great Cathedral space which was childhood." Virginia Woolf

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality." Virginia Woolf