Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. – Thomas C. Haliburton Category: Names
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt Category: Names
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb Category: Names
My music isnt anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rocknroll, and it has an urgency to it. – Neil Young Category: Music
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. – Harold Bloom Category: Knowledge
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. – Jan Glidewell Category: Broken Hearts
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Property