Paul Desmond (1924–1977) American jazz musician
His response to the annoying banality of an interviewer
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“David Frost has risen without trace.”
Kitty Muggeridge, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3rd ed, 2007) 230:8
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English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and… 1939–2013Related quotes
Amors sanz crieme et sans peor
Est feus sanz flame et sanz chalor,
Jorz sanz soloil, bresche sanz miel,
Estez sans flor, iverz sanz giel,
Ciaus sanz lune, livres sanz letre.
Cligès, line 3893.
“People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.”
Henning Mankell book The Troubled Man
Source: The Troubled Man
““I’m very sorry,” the drone said, without a trace of contrition.”
Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 3 (p. 308).
“Life is like a spring dream which vanishes without a trace.”
Su Shi (1037–1101) Chinese writer
As quoted in Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu, Chapter 1: 'Wedded Bliss'; translated by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942), p. 968
Variant translation:
Life passes like a spring dream without a trace.
Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), p. 156
“All your problems are just illusions that will pass without a trace.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”
Farley Mowat (1921–2014) Canadian author and environmentalist
“This much poison cannot pour in one’s ears without it will leave some trace.”
Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch
Book Two, Part III “The Sorceress”, Chapter 1 (p. 302)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
“Frosting
Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Source: The Panther and the Lash