A. D. Gordon Quotes

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

There's the added element of adrenaline if you're performing. You're aware of spatial relationships and the music.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

This place is full of unwritten rules.

If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

I sensed she [Sarah Harmer] had this look on her face like, 'Jesus, if you can do it, I certainly can.' But I had nothing to teach her, let's put it that way.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

The place of cycling in our society is set to grow, and I am committed to doing everything possible to encourage that.

I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

It's not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it's something that's got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout 'double life' situation, and for that, I am very grateful.

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.