Quotes · Skopia

14 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Louisiana✕clear

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

1985

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing-that's the Lord's test.

Mahalia Jackson

1966

★ 1.2

News conference

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie.

1967

★ 1.9

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

1950

★ 2.0

Open letter · Letter

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

1952

★ 2.0

Film · Documentary (film)

Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.

Fahrenheit 9/11 · 2004

★ 2.1

Song · Pop music

I see friends shaking hands, saying, 'How do you do.' They're really saying, 'I love you.'

Louis Armstrong

What a Wonderful World · 1967

★ 2.2

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

The New York Times Magazine · 1993

★ 2.7

Obituary · Newspaper

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

The New York Times

★ 3.6

A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.

James K. Feibleman

Understanding Philosophy · 1973

★ 4.4

I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood · 1996

★ 4.4

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

1983

★ 5.1

It's the economy, stupid.

1992

★ 6.9

Courtroom speech · Speech

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

1995

★ 7.0