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I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
— Eddie Condon
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
— Robert Orben
I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!
— J. B. Smoove
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.
— Paul Desmond
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
— Paul Desmond
The temperatures rising in the slow-moving air like the heat of angered flesh as capillaries squeezed, the blood in them rising to a boil.
— Hugh Howey
Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts - so what?
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth.
— T.D. Jakes
Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.
— Paul Desmond
Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ...
— Aphra Behn
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.
— Juice Newton
Alec didn't normally consider himself a violent man, but sometimes, arms simply needed to be removed.
— Gail Carriger
I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.
— Paul Desmond
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
— George Lucas
To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
— Edwin A. Abbott
There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
— Carl Van Vechten
I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.
— Paul Desmond
I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.
— Paul Desmond