Billy Strayhorn Quotes

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Billy Strayhorn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EnoughYouDoneWantHardSomething

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

Jessie Matthews

PerfectionMindYouStriveAlways

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

John Ortberg

LoveLearningAcademicLedWhich

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Robert Plant

TimeThinkSheepSameSingI Think

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

Robert Irwin

GoodRedPaintingGreenEyeYou

When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who weren't born into the white guy paradigm of 'funny' don't need a handout. We don't need a PC push. We don't need 'a look.'

Amanda Seales

FunnyAcceptanceDiversitySpeak

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Stanley Crouch

IntellectualSubwayHighwayAlso

My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.

Steven Michael Quezada

EducationSchoolFeelNewMexico

Songwriting is my gift from God.

Smokey Robinson

GodGiftSongwriting

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

Robert Brady

RiverHandleMillionSpeakerCargo

I believe you can make your better half feel special on any given day and turn it in Valentine's Day.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Valentine's DayDayBelieveBetter

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle.

Michael Keaton

PeopleFamousPartyLifestyleYes

I look back and see the kids who made it through school - it made a huge difference in their lives, which made me believe in the power of public education and what it can do for individuals and communities and the state.

Denise Juneau

EducationPowerSchoolMeBelieve

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