The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our c...
EUGENE B. SLEDGE Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the cl...
EUGENE B. SLEDGE The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of mach...
EUGENE B. BOROWITZ I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunio...
PERCY SLEDGE We didn't go inside as much as we could have. We should have gone inside more often.
ALONZO SLEDGE The big guy picked up those two fouls, but I think that actually hurt us because their other guys we...
ALONZO SLEDGE It means a whole lot. I'm more proud of the kids than I am of myself. Law, this is his third straigh...
ALONZO SLEDGE We knew they weren't going to go away. They came back from 22 points down at their Regional, so we t...
ALONZO SLEDGE I was pretty much pleased with the way we played. We got of to a pretty good start, and we thought t...
ALONZO SLEDGE We knew it was going to be a challenge ... They're a good team. I talked with them this morning, and...
ALONZO SLEDGE I knew Midfield would press from the beginning of the game to the end. We knew the outcome would be ...
ALONZO SLEDGE They did what we asked them to do. We had to get off to a good start and control the tempo. And we w...
ALONZO SLEDGE He's a leader. He's not a selfish kid. The key thing is he just wants to win. And he had to step ton...
ALONZO SLEDGE They hit the boards because they know they can get a shot. They have more energy (on the offensive g...
ALONZO SLEDGE 'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Lef...
PERCY SLEDGE Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, ...
PERCY SLEDGE It's been a tough spring. I'm a magnet for everything.
TERRMEL SLEDGE Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w...
PERCY SLEDGE I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptati...
PERCY SLEDGE Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and peopl...
PERCY SLEDGE I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice c...
PERCY SLEDGE Division-I football, that would be hard to refuse.
MATT SLEDGE I'm not sure what's going to happen. It's a tough decision.
MATT SLEDGE Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster yo...
CHARLES R. SLEDGE JR. I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman comm...
EUGENE KENNEDY Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ...
EUGENE KENNEDY Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft...
EUGENE JARECKI Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. -Eugene Ionesco.
EUGENE IONESCO The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.
EUGENE O'NEILL The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experi...
EUGENE O'NEILL The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy th...
EUGENE KENNEDY The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experi...
EUGENE O'NEILL It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of t...
EUGENE JARECKI Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame;
I have sipped the so-called Wine of Lif...
EUGENE O'NEILL If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as t...
EUGENE O'NEILL The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bri...
EUGENE CERNAN We are all dead men on leave.
EUGENE LEVINE Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying t...
EUGENE IONESCO All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing...
EUGENE FIELD His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party ...
EUGENE JARECKI Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
EUGENE SUE Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something ...
EUGENE MIRMAN If you're at a party with more than five people named Chad, get the fuck out right away.
EUGENE MIRMAN The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ...
EUGENE IONESCO I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white i...
EUGENE O'NEILL Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
EUGENE O'NEILL Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to ...
EUGENE FIELD Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A ma...
EUGENE IONESCO Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s.
EUGENE IONESCO We are the party of all labor. The whole earth shall be ours to share. And every race and craft our ...
EUGENE POTTIER Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to hav...
EUGENE DELACROIX One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
EUGENE O'NEILL A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
EUGENE FIELD A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
EUGENE IONESCO Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
EUGENE DELACROIX When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing...
EUGENE DELACROIX A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
EUGENE DELACROIX Happiness hates the timid! So does science!
EUGENE O'NEILL For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or futur...
EUGENE O'NEILL Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, t...
EUGENE DELACROIX Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning l...
EUGENE DELACROIX The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
EUGENE DELACROIX This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the ai...
EUGENE MCCARTHY The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixt...
EUGENE IONESCO I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of ...
EUGENE IONESCO I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that ind...
EUGENE DELACROIX What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or p...
EUGENE DELACROIX For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As thoug...
EUGENE IONESCO There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfwa...
EUGENE IONESCO When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...
EUGENE DEBS All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You ...
EUGENE FIELD Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
EUGENE O'NEILL While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while t...
EUGENE DEBS Getters don't get -- givers get.
EUGENE BENGE The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the g...
EUGENE MCCARTHY The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
EUGENE DEBS Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsi...
EUGENE IONESCO Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
EUGENE IONESCO I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did ...
EUGENE PETERSON Life without a friend is death without a witness.
EUGENE BENGE Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal l...
EUGENE FIELD Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
EUGENE IONESCO If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ...
EUGENE EDWARDS The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
EUGENE FIELD If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as...
EUGENE O'NEILL No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pai...
EUGENE IONESCO How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher ...
EUGENE FIELD When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small...
EUGENE FIELD Music is what feelings sound like.
EUGENE DELACROIX No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain ...
EUGENE IONESCO I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
EUGENE DELACROIX Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wa...
EUGENE CERNAN There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or id...
EUGENE IONESCO Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he sa...
EUGENE JARECKI Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who...
EUGENE JARECKI Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have b...
EUGENE KENNEDY Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has ...
EUGENE KENNEDY A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
EUGENE IONESCO The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with ...
EUGENE KENNEDY