Famous Quotes & Sayings

Camille Paglia

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

C. J. Mahaney

Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

Edward Gibbon

The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

Audre Lorde

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

Bertolt Brecht

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Arthur Eddington

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

Arianna Huffington

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Bruno Heller

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

Edmund White

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

Anton Chekhov

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

David Mamet

The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

John Cale

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

Henry Flynt

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Paul Valery

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Phyllis McGinley

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

Nicolas Cage

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

David Sanborn

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Charles Mingus

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Charles Mingus

Everything I do is Mingus.

Edgar Meyer

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Edgar Winter

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.