37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. Alan Hovhaness Read Quote
Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time. Pierce Brosnan Read Quote
My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together. Dwayne Johnson Read Quote
We need to have a clear moral vision for both our foreign policy, and economic policy and policy on racial justice. Ro Khanna Read Quote
What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere. Arthur Schwartz Read Quote
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? Irv Kupcinet Read Quote
Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck. Billie Holiday Read Quote
I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, ‘Why are those people going up those stairs?’ And she said, ‘You know, I don’t know how to tell you this, I don’t know how to explain it, but it won’t always be that way, because it’s wrong.’ Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers. Jonathan Franzen Read Quote
