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The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.


Leonard Cohen

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BLAKE CROUCH My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night penci...
LEONARD COHEN I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubbl...
MITCH HEDBERG There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, whi...
TOM ROBBINS Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: h...
AURORA Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s...
DIANE ABBOTT When Chuck would get some bubble gum in he would save it until Halloween to give out to the kids, .....
JEANNE MILLER I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that b...
MITCH HEDBERG It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
LEONARD COHEN [Analyst Michael Cannon put it more bluntly.] There's no bubble, ... The only bubble I know is gum.
MICHAEL CANNON Sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship, Leonard. It really does.” “Here’s looking at ...
MATTHEW QUICK Perhaps no line of Cohen’s better captures the essence of his vision. He is telling his listeners ...
LIEL LEIBOVITZ You feel the same hum at a Cohen concert that you do at a church or a synagogue, a feeling that eman...
LIEL LEIBOVITZ He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have ...
LEONARD COHEN All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by ...
WADADA LEO SMITH When somebody like Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan would come to town, I would do a session. I did a few ...
CHARLIE DANIELS I'll miss the old building. But look at it ? it's all torn open. It was just held together with bubb...
HAROLD WILLIAMS You can often wash your troubles away with the right kind of bath. Throw everything you have into th...
HENRY BEARD My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also...
KAZUO ISHIGURO We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gu...
PENNY MARSHALL Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
BOB DYLAN As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents wer...
ALANIS MORISSETTE Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate v...
DAMIEN RICE The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 f...
JOHNNY BENCH If we live in a glass bubble then it is always easier for the glass to shatter, it is different if t...
GARY F EVANS... It's funny, I've decided 'Hallelujah' is a kind of Rorschach test for people, because everyone has a...
RENéE FLEMING so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...

So ring the bells that still can...
LEONARD COHEN We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Those guys (the middle relief) have some good numbers on the back of their bubble gum cards.
CLINT HURDLE She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape...
C.M. STUNICH We're seeing lots of natural looks, and pink for the lips is everywhere in every shade bubble gum, c...
AMY KELLER Be so strong enough in virtues like hard work rather than waiting for miracle.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Leonard Feather... was the one who arranged for me to come to London to work for the BBC, and we rem...
BENNY CARTER We are waiting for a miracle.
DELIA BALTAZAR We are waiting for a miracle.
ELI GROSSMAN The power to miraculously make things happen in your life,is by learning the art of throwing in the ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept wa...
RICK RIORDAN It sounds like it's very easy, but it's ain't easy.
DEYTH BANGER Nothing is hard like waiting around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to giv...
GUNDO MULAUDZI Oh, that sounds like a song waiting to be made.
FATBOY SLIM Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and sati...
SOL LUCKMAN Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everyb...
LEONARD COHEN I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and wai...
ARIANA GRANDE I'm just waiting for the time when it's going to come together. I've been waiting for a while.
CARLOS BELTRAN Caravaggio was a tormented, defiant, bisexual, angry young man - a maestro who looked nothing like a...
ALVARO ENRIGUE Some women like to treat a man like a piece of bubble gum. The poor sap thinks everything’s fine. ...
ROBERT BURTON ROBINSON "Everybody is a miracle waiting for you to listen." - Martin Screeton
MARTIN T. SCREETON I don't even like gum. But I can chew some gum, and I won't think about eating for a while.
DAVID WISE Life that is waiting for the expectation of miracle makes us to be against the nature.
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaska—waitin...
LAMA THUBTEN YESHE Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
HANK KETCHAM Maybe it's like the real estate bubble. Everyone waits for it and waits for it, but it hasn't happen...
BRIDGET FOLEY I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting a...
ANA DE ARMAS life is like playing the piano when you push the right keys beautiful sounds come out, when you touc...
MARK IBRAHIM I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but d...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.
DAVID HOROWITZ But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a proph...
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't w...
ERNEST NEWMAN who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, i...
FRANK BLACK Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, all dark, all romantic. When I say “romantic,” I mean a...
JEFF BUCKLEY Its funny," said Vena. "I never knew I had the talent, but people will come miles for my dumplings."...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's crazy to watch. There were camera crews waiting for her when she went into rookie orientation a...
MORGAN PRESSEL When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
ELBERT HUBBARD We still like the home builders and we like the bubble talk too, ... The second we stop hearing abou...
JOHN BUCKINGHAM A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It looks like a bubble, but the underlying trend is too powerful to ignore.
HENRY BLODGET My grandpa always says he likes music that still sounds good when you unplug it.
ANNIE WOLAVER Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
HANK KETCHAM YOU are the miracle life has been waiting for you just need to AWAKEN to that level of consciousness
WILIAM CONSTANTINE It's like the state slogan says. Come see for yourself.
ELLEN JOHNSON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore ...
LIBBA BRAY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA The photo that I looked at, I don't know if the photographer didn't like that he was chewing gum, bu...
GRANT SMITH The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and...
NATASHA LITTLE For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it det...
JULIO CORTáZAR There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're...
BERNARD SUMNER I have been waiting for Sean to come back every week, it is like putting Christmas back.
IAN MILLWARD Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.
ANDRE RIEU All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turn...
HALSEY Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds a...
THEODORE MUNGERS It's a nice study and I'm probably going to end up saying if you want to chew gum, chew gum. I don't...
DR. MICHAEL HARRIS When we meditate upon the fact of our existence we come to realise that each of us is a miracle livi...
TONY BRADY When you're sitting at a red light, and you hear it coming, you're just waiting for it to come.
WILLIAM JONES Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing pers...
BILLY EICHNER That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing i...
ALLY CARTER It really sounds like somebody she knew. It's just kind of a bizarre thing, but then again, this who...
ANITA GATTIS In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always sli...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People are so familiar with Mozart. They have been raised listening to it (his music) but didn't rea...
JEFF KLUBALL Mama says change is God's way of showing us a tender miracle, kinda like the chocolate inside a Toot...
SUZANNE CROWLEY It sounds like the company has a pretty good road map ahead to increase (its reach) beyond PCs. It s...
DANIEL SCHWARTZ All this waiting.
Waiting for the rain to
stop. Waiting in traffic.
Waiting for the...
KAMAND KOJOURI I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. W...
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Dont put yourself and your happiness in a bubble and block the rest of the world out.cause when that...
KIMBERLY SHILENJE There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it j...
ELIZABETH BERG As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's ag...
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GEORGE LEONARD “The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that...
LEONARD RAVENHILL It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens...
LEONARD RAVENHILL The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ...
GEORGE LEONARD History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa...
GEORGE LEONARD If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha...
LEONARD MLODINOW My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen ho...
LEONARD SUSSKIND It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and ...
KAWHI LEONARD Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which show...
LEONARD WOODCOCK If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the...
LEONARD LAUDER It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig...
LEONARD SUSSKIND 'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our...
LEONARD MLODINOW Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo...
LEONARD NIMOY Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines...
LEONARD BOSWELL