“America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.”
Scene X, Earth's Surface
Festus (1839)
Source: The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom (2019), p.344
“America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.”
Scene X, Earth's Surface
Festus (1839)
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Sandman Slim
“Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Variant: Good wits jump; 45 a word to the wise is enough.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 38.
“Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?”
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
Time, TIME: Man Of The Year, Walter, Isaacson, 1997-12-29 http://www.time.com/time/special/moy/grove/opener1.html, <br class="br">1980s - 1990s
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Imperfection http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21399/Imperfection <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells.”
Charles Mingus (1922–1979) American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
Quoted in "What'd I Say?" : The Atlantic Story : 50 Years of Music (2001) by Ahmet M. Ertegun; also partially quoted in What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians As Artists, Critics, and Activists (2002) by Eric C. Porter, p. 118, and Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz And the Making of the Sixties (2005) by Scott Saul, p. 154
Context: Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra run around the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.
“The idea of the thing was attacked by good and bad men, in good faith and bad.”
R. A. Lafferty book Fourth Mansions
Source: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 4
Context: "There was a later time when sincere men tried to build an organization as wide as the world to secure the peace of the world. It had been tried before and it had failed before. Perhaps if it failed this time it would not be tried again for a very long while. The idea of the thing was attacked by good and bad men, in good faith and bad. The final realization of it was so close that it could be touched with the fingertips. A gambler wouldn't have given odds on it either way. It teetered, and it almost seemed as though it would succeed. Then members of that group interfered."
"And it failed, O'Claire?"
"No. It succeeded, Foley, as in the other case. It succeeded in so twisted a fashion that the Devil himself was puzzled as to whether he had gained or lost ground by it. And he isn't easily puzzled."