“I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.” WantedHeardPaidJazzBroke Author:Ornette Coleman
“That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.” ThinkingTryingPersonsPlaySoundTalkingJazz Author:Ornette Coleman
“We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.” WorldStillsSufferingMusicClassJazzWesternForgottenCategoriesWestern WorldDiapers Author:Ornette Coleman
“The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.” ShouldSocialEnemySecurityMortalsContemptSocial SecurityMisleadMedicareArithmeticMortal Enemies Author:Mitch Daniels
“I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.” RealDarknessNot Afraid Author:Vasco da Gama
“The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.” EarthChurchMoonShadowMagellan Author:Ferdinand Magellan
“I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed” WritingHalfSawsUnchartedPolo Author:Marco Polo
“My heart beats as much as I can breathe.” HeartI CanMy HeartBeatsBreatheHeart BeatPolo Author:Marco Polo
“I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.” KnowsMenWorldShouldFirstsBelieveSaidBookMightChristianI BelieveCitiesSonCitizensNobleGods WillChaptersPaganVeniceMarcosPoloMongols Author:Marco Polo