R.D. Blackmore Quotes

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins' idea and extending it.

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

Knowing Master Huckaback to be a man of his word, as well as one who would have others so, I was careful to be in good time the next morning . . .

'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'

Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.

Either love me not at all, or as I love you, for ever.