Victorious Sleepwalkers

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” -Kenneth Tynan

“No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.” -Francis Marion Crawford

“No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.” -Francis Bacon, Sr.

“Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people’s hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.” -Paul Robeson

“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” -Charles P. Steinmetz

“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” -Tom Lehrer

“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” -William Jennings Bryan 

“What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?” -Marquis De Custine

“The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before and he does it without destroying something else.” -John Updike

“We ran up the hills where, as you looked down toward the sea, the flooded rice fields lay shining in the sunlight like a broken mirror.” -Colin McPhee

“A lot of people claim to have studied with Gene Kelly, and they’re probably telling the truth, because he and I taught hundreds and hundreds of people…some of them in twenty-minute assembly-line lessons that cost fifty cents.” -Fred Kelly

“Originality’s the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain’t really nowhere. Gotta be original.” -Lester Young

“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.” -Julius Caesar 

“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.” -Andrew Jackson 

“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.” -Zelda Fitzgerald