“Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.”
VI. 208 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Source: Mr. Wrong
“Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.”
VI. 208 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I’ll be fine.”
Jack Osbourne (1985) Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
MTV.com Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
"I knew we should have left you a rat."
Jace, Clary, and Simon, pg. 296-297
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.”
Margaret George (1943) American writer
Source: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
Charles Mingus (1922–1979) American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
An Open Letter To Miles Davis (1955)
Context: I think my own way. I don't think like you and my music isn't meant just for the patting of feet and going down backs. When and if I feel gay and carefree, I write or play that way. When I feel angry I write or play that way — or when I'm happy, or depressed, even.
Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever. Music is, or was, a language of the emotions. If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music, and I would begin to worry about my writing if such a person began to really like it. My music is alive and it's about the living and the dead, about good and evil. It's angry, yet it's real because it knows it's angry.
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker