Billie Holiday Famous Quotes
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
Billie Holiday Quotations
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
Saint Jerome
All people want is someone to listen.
Hugh Elliott
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
Thomas Alva Edison
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
"In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity-by being opinionated rather than by being learned."
A N Wilson
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Peter Kropotkin
"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
Albert Einstein
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Madame Swetchine
"All things must change to something new, to something strange."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow