“There is a limited supply of excellent songs, but I am not the only one. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. Rock musicians over 30 only produce unimportant material.” YearsPastSongRocksProduceMaterialsMusicianAll TimeExcellentSongwritersUnimportantRock MusicManureRock Musicians Author:Noel Gallagher
“Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.” MenTogetherDiesLibertyProduceFineGeniusSpeechTerrorExcellentBarriersFreedom Of SpeechTraitorOppressors Author:Benjamin Franklin
“The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.” DesirePassionSexEffectsProduceDeserveFairsPraiseExcellentAdmirationVehement Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.” FeelingsAudienceMissingProducePerformancesExcellentPianoSobrietyAbsorbingPianistHardwareCoolness Author:Donal Henahan
“Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."” IfsWayHas BeensSelfAbleJobsProduceExcellentProcrastinationGreat Job Author:James Surowiecki
“I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.” IfsFeelsMindI CanCertainSoundActingHealingEffectsProduceTheoryBedSkillsPerfectionDoctorsMedicineSlaveRoundsRefuseDenyManageExcellentAcknowledgeDietsFancyPhysiciansStrictObservingObjectionsGift From God Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre” GivingProduceInspireExcellentBizarre Author:Denis Diderot
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.” PeopleNeedsWritingSeemsSchoolLevelsKnownClassPlansMiddlePolicyProducePoliticianBenefitsProgramBlindSpotsExcellentMiddle ClassRetirementUrgentSalaryEditsNanniesBlind SpotsHealth BenefitsUpper Middle Class Author:Judith Warner
“Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.” ArtistEffectsProduceElementsTricksArtisticExcellentEndeavorBulletsSuperficialEmployedInitialsArrowsBracketsOrnamentation Author:Paul Rand
“Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.” IfsTryingCultureFoodProduceEmptyInternationalExcellentSubstitutesCigarStumpsMatchboxes Author:Norman Douglas