Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Woolf

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

Wynton Marsalis

Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others

Wynton Marsalis

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

Wynton Marsalis

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Frederick W. Smith

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

John Green

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

John Mulaney

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

Geoffrey Boycott

(James) Anderson has a gift from the gods: he could swing an orange.

Louis Armstrong

A lot of the musicians asked me if when I hit my high-Cs on the records I had a clarinet take the notes. Some [thought] I had invented some kind of gadget so I could play high register. They weren't satisfied until they handed me a trumpet that they had with them and had me swing it. Then they cheered.

Woody Allen

Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.

Zora Neale Hurston

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.

Kenneth Clark

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Paul Eluard

The earth is blue like an orange.

Jonathan Carroll

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

Darren Criss

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.

Ann Aguirre

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

Stephen Brady

We'll go out and make it safe, electrically. If the orange cones are there, then we have been out there.

Simone de Beauvoir

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.