Annie Ross

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

The secret of life is to validate your existence.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

A man is as old as his arteries.

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

I believe in 100% Theory and 100% Practice. Theory without practical application is futile.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.