Billy Strayhorn Quotes

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

Billy Strayhorn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1915 - May 31, 1967

Topics

LifeLiveSmallDiveSomeLush

I would say it's human nature to be ignorant and go straight to war, but 'Sense8' tries to illuminate the positive side of humanity.

Max Riemelt

PositiveNatureWarHuman NatureGo

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

Robert M. Gates

MovingDifficultyDefenseSecretary

I want to be one of the wrestlers that actually gave back, that actually cared about the industry. That's very important to me.

Matt Hardy

MeBackImportantWantIndustry

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Ang Lee

MyselfWorldUnderstandingMovies

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

John Twelve Hawks

ThoughtsFreeNeverWithoutActions

I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

Amy Purdy

LifeLiveBestMoving ForwardMoving

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

WarWorldPoliticalYouBornMoral

My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!

Sophie B. Hawkins

FamilySonPeopleParentYoungWant

If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

Tracy McMillan

WaterJobDoingTalkingTelevision

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Michel de Montaigne

FaithTodayYesterdayTellThings

I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, people would never have known personal stuff about musicians and actors, but I like it. As long as I don't obsessively overshare, it's OK. And when I do overshare, it's just, like, me saying, 'I've got $7 in my bank account!'

Lorde

LovePeopleMeSayingThinkLong

I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.

Jay Weatherill

TruthThinkYouDownCooperation

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