Jeffrey Vlaming Famous Quotes
"Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum."
"CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience"
Jeffrey Vlaming Quotations
"The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them."
David Joseph Schwartz
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina
"Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows but without that noise."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Phillips Feynman
In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Dorothea Dix
"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you're RIGHT I NEVER would've thought of that'"
Dave Barry
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
Thomas Huxley
"No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man."
John Selden
"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
Elbert Hubbard