Geoffrey Ward Quotes

The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.

Geoffrey Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

LawBlackLovedAmericanLongWhite

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

Jeremy Scott

YourselfThinkYouPersonImportant

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

Jerome Richardson

CharacterYouSayWillOwnThings

People don't come to my concerts because they know the program. They come because they love the atmosphere and because they know that when I offer them a program it will be a night they never forget.

Andre Rieu

LovePeopleNightNever ForgetKnow

We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

Anand Giridharadas

KnowSlaveTradeCapitalGetRid

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

Stella Young

PersonEuthanasiaDisabled

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Sol LeWitt

TodayArtPoliticalSignificant

I don't have the talent of Daniel Day-Lewis. I'm Steve Austin, so when I get to hang out and be who I am, and I live on set, it's like a paid vacation, man.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

LiveManVacationTalentI AmOut

You need fear to create, to live.

Tracie Bennett

FearLiveYouCreateNeed

Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

Douglas Brinkley

SpaceWeatherGenerationStudentNew

In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.

David Shields

FearFatherMotherHistoryMeHim

Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.

Brian J. Smith

NothingChangesSafePlayingKeep

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

Boo Weekley

TimeI AmParentsMeNot KnowingUp

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Geoffrey Ward