“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician
Addressing Chris Ruane
2014
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ed-miliband-and-nick-clegg-back-john-bercows-plans-to-reform-pmqs-but-conservative-backbenchers-9137037.html
“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician
Edmund Clerihew Bentley book Trent's Own Case
Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part VI: Now We're Getting Somewhere, Miles Standish
“I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.”
Joe Satriani (1956) American guitar player
As quoted in Guitar World (May 2000).
“When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”
Edith Evans (1888–1976) British actress
Observer (London, Sept. 30, 1956)
Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer
Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“Do not judge yourself, but live with someone who knows how to behave himself properly.”
Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father
Saying 73
Theophrastus (-371–-287 BC) ancient greek philosopher
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".
Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914–1993) American businessman and diplomat
Watson, Jr. cited in: Joseph Mancuso (1975) Managing technology products. p. 160.