Billy Strayhorn Quotes

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Billy Strayhorn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RomanticStriveRomanceWhoThose

I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Meg Rosoff

LifeWritingRight PersonMy Life

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Matthew Gray Gubler

NatureBeginningManDawnEndSince

The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

Michael Bloomberg

BestCityWorldPlaceNewSaid

I'm actually really impressed with everyone at Polydor.

Shura

EveryoneImpressedActuallyReally

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

Mireille Enos

PeopleEndWeekYouGoCrime

At the end of the day, I want to be a world champion.

Luke Harper

DayWorldChampionEndWant

Feminism is cancer.

Milo Yiannopoulos

FeminismCancer

Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

Jason Reitman

GreatCulturePeopleGrowing Up

Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit.

Jonathan Evison

EnoughCreditFictionGiveManyToo

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Chuck Palahniuk

LoveChangeHomeRelationshipJob

The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.

Pope Benedict XVI

TruthTryContactUsGuided

I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least.

Lester Holt

MorningChallengeI AmMePerson

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