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Being a writer is like going on holidays everyday ... without the expense — Jennifer Larmar

I am one of those people who isn't great at anything, but I'm pretty good at most things. — Tom Ford

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled. — Kevin Nealon

Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection. — Anthony Liccione

Cider House Rules — Danielle Girard

There was a languid feel to the night air the following evening. The breeze was — Nicholas Sparks

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things. — William Stafford

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable. — Charles Baudelaire

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing. — John Philip Sousa

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape. — John Philip Sousa

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. — John Philip Sousa

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. — John Philip Sousa

Sincere composers believe in God. — John Philip Sousa

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. — John Philip Sousa

Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains — John Philip Sousa

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence. — Roger Ebert

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth. — John Philip Sousa

My religion lies in my composition. — John Philip Sousa

I was wracked with insecurity. — Ray Romano

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else. — John Philip Sousa

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. — John Philip Sousa

The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and hope. — John Philip Sousa

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice. — Amy Klobuchar

A band is only as good as its euphonium section. — John Philip Sousa

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. — John Philip Sousa

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. — John Philip Sousa

Love isn't much of a legacy, Mr. Firas."
"I think there's none better."
"It doesn't last."
"It doesn't have to. — Heidi Heilig

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. — John Philip Sousa

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer — John Philip Sousa

I court not the votes of the fickle mob. — Horace

Conservative, (New York, Beaufort Books, — John Philip Sousa IV

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa

Nations will seldom obtain good national anthems by offering prizes for them. The man and the occasion must meet. — John Philip Sousa

The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it. — Hal Lindsey

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself. — John Philip Sousa

There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience! — John Philip Sousa

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. — John Philip Sousa

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for. — Louise Hay

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. — John Philip Sousa