Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.

I can't get it wrong.

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.