Herbie Mann Quotes

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

Herbie Mann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1930 - June 1, 2003

Topics

LifeTimeYouLookDoneImportant

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Jimmy Wales

KnowledgeWorldFreeDoingPerson

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

Jim Carrey

TimePeopleFaceYouSaidSay

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!'

Jennifer Lynch

PeopleActionFallFallingCutUsed

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

Anna Held

DeadCigaretteDoes

Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

Ameen Rihani

WorkPageIndependentOldText

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

Tom Shadyac

MeDoneChildlikeAceSacredMovie

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Rita Dove

DetailsMomentsExploreMostOur

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Romain Rolland

HomeDreamsMenManFaceDream

I don't get that with the nannies. What's your point if you have a child and you aren't raising it?

Rozonda Thomas

ChildYouPointGetYourRaising

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

LifeDreamsSleepDreamSleeping

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

Luis von Ahn

GoodScienceJobSmartWorldDone

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

LoveKindnessPeopleLovingDeserve

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