quotes about Above Average

“The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.”

Source : Quoted in George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (1936)

“I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.”

“I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.”

“I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.”

“As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger...”

Source : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.”

“As soon as you direct such a question outward to your fellow man and not inward to yourself, you have set yourself on a judgment seat and thereby judged yourself. You have robbed yourself of what you had won by your own continence; you have taken one step forward but ten backward: and then you have reason to weep over your obstinacy, your failure to improve, and your pride.”

“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.”

“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”