quotes about Money And Fame

“As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.”

Source : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001). “Two Years Before the Mast”, p.15, Digital Scanning Inc

“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”

“A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.”

“Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.”

“As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.”

“There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.”

“As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar player, invited me one day to join him recording film music with a band named Kraftwerk which I didn't know at the time. I came along and jammed at this session together with Ralf Hütter and a drummer (I believe his name was Charly Weiß). Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were present as listeners and everybody liked the spontaneous music we did together.”

“Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.”

“It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”