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The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the fal...
EZRA CORNELL I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my ...
EZRA CORNELL I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriag...
EZRA CORNELL My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of ou...
EZRA CORNELL As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substa...
EZRA CORNELL Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
EZRA CORNELL There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is ...
EZRA CORNELL I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I oppose...
EZRA CORNELL I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
EZRA CORNELL Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
EZRA CORNELL I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
EZRA CORNELL The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No...
EZRA CORNELL In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.
EZRA CORNELL Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowi...
EZRA CORNELL I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.
EZRA CORNELL

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except...
CHRIS CORNELL I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performa...
KATHARINE CORNELL I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious an...
KATHARINE CORNELL I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his fri...
KATHARINE CORNELL When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to h...
KATHARINE CORNELL The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every ...
KATHARINE CORNELL

I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 millio...
CHRIS CORNELL

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a...
CHRIS CORNELL

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL

The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American ...
CHRIS CORNELL

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.
CHRIS CORNELL

There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
CHRIS CORNELL

When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I...
CHRIS CORNELL

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to song...
CHRIS CORNELL

One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the id...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down ...
CHRIS CORNELL

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last r...
CHRIS CORNELL

Some of the most brilliant things that someone might do could happen in three minutes because it'...
CHRIS CORNELL

If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the...
CHRIS CORNELL

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire B...
CHRIS CORNELL

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, som...
CHRIS CORNELL

When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a...
CHRIS CORNELL

The idea of telling the story of the Armenian genocide - or, really, any other genocide - and repeat...
CHRIS CORNELL

To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
CHRIS CORNELL

You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and re...
CHRIS CORNELL

My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, a...
CHRIS CORNELL

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of ...
CHRIS CORNELL

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when y...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've always had a really difficult time with loss.
CHRIS CORNELL

Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting ...
CHRIS CORNELL

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, c...
CHRIS CORNELL

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up a...
CHRIS CORNELL

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens...
CHRIS CORNELL

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect...
CHRIS CORNELL

When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life rea...
CHRIS CORNELL

Tom and Brad and Tim were huge fans of Soundgarden before I ever met them. The (Soundgarden) songs w...
CHRIS CORNELL

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks ...
CHRIS CORNELL

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of...
CHRIS CORNELL

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hen...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not t...
CHRIS CORNELL

I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulne...
CHRIS CORNELL

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking th...
CHRIS CORNELL

A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ...
CHRIS CORNELL

I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and...
CHRIS CORNELL

Most of the time, reading through treatments, it's like it could be any band, any song -- it doesn't...
CHRIS CORNELL

He just complained and complained the whole time we were there...But it didn't make any difference i...
CHRIS CORNELL

First and foremost, it was a lesson in propaganda. We were wound up, thinking we might be under surv...
CHRIS CORNELL

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when ...
CHRIS CORNELL

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or &...
CHRIS CORNELL

The show was very emotional. We all have so much experience that we were trying to trick ourselves i...
CHRIS CORNELL

We want to have the next record filled up with songs that were performed for people before they were...
CHRIS CORNELL

(Getting back together) would take the lid off that and could possibly change what up to now, to me,...
CHRIS CORNELL

To answer your question, probably not, ... The fans, as well as ex-Soundgarden members, should feel ...
CHRIS CORNELL

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.
CHRIS CORNELL

Nick and Vicky were raised in a restaurant family and they have a very familial Greek way of doing t...
CHRIS CORNELL

Actually, that's not true,
CHRIS CORNELL

[You see, if the guys in Audioslave are going to take the time to make a video, they're not going to...
CHRIS CORNELL

We are your ambassadors in a sense, and it was an extremely successful trip.
CHRIS CORNELL

My head was much more in it. We were able to write very quickly, all four of us in the room, and to ...
CHRIS CORNELL

It wouldn't [have been] a plus, it would [have been] a minus. That story is that story, and the memb...
CHRIS CORNELL

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've al...
CHRIS CORNELL

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but most...
CHRIS CORNELL Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.
PAUL CORNELL

In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great...
CHRIS CORNELL

I never felt bad about being lumped in with other Seattle bands. I thought it was great.
CHRIS CORNELL Democrats have to strike where [Bush's] strength is, particularly at a time when he is bleeding.
CORNELL BELCHER I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - curr...
CORNELL WOOLRICH Errors and strikeouts at the plate are what hurt us. But they're something we can fix.
WHIT CORNELL I got another chestful of air in, tore loose with it. 'Somebody help me! You people standing around ...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something ...
CHRIS CORNELL After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different wi...
CHRIS CORNELL

Probably before that record comes out we'll be out playing shows again. The idea is just to break do...
CHRIS CORNELL

I just thought, that's what you did -- you sang in a voice that was appropriate for the song. You wr...
CHRIS CORNELL

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a y...
CHRIS CORNELL

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade...
CHRIS CORNELL Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art...
CORNELL CAPA Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood...
JOSEPH CORNELL

I've always felt like there's a certain amount of doing what I do, and performing and making...
CHRIS CORNELL

I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and roc...
CHRIS CORNELL

There was this moment when we made 'Superunknown': the Seattle music scene had suddenly ende...
CHRIS CORNELL

Seattle very much benefited from this geography where it was a town nobody had really heard of in te...
CHRIS CORNELL If you want to buy a quilt, you have to find someone who is willing to sell, and a lot of us aren't ...
BRENDA CORNELL I shipped fabric home from France!
BRENDA CORNELL When you get it just right, and you have the right fabric with the right pattern, it's really fulfil...
BRENDA CORNELL An attachment grew up. What is an attachment? It is the most difficult of all the human interrelatio...
CORNELL WOOLRICH Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once."
John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real...
PAUL CORNELL

And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remain...
CHRIS CORNELL

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back ...
CHRIS CORNELL John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide ho...
PAUL CORNELL He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's an...
PAUL CORNELL

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to...
CHRIS CORNELL

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have ...
CHRIS CORNELL

There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost ...
CHRIS CORNELL When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

I always looked at rock & roll as the voice of regular people, of an economic group not in charg...
CHRIS CORNELL

Whenever anyone sends me a link to a band, saying, 'These guys sound exactly like Soundgarden,&#...
CHRIS CORNELL

I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it u...
CHRIS CORNELL

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot wi...
CHRIS CORNELL

Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair are taking the simplest elements of Soundgarden, Nirvana,...
CHRIS CORNELL

Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important...
CHRIS CORNELL

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care o...
CHRIS CORNELL

I've seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows, and the only reaction I've ever seen is the audience bei...
CHRIS CORNELL

I prefer not to use any machines. I focus a lot on cardio, which is what I do when I'm on stage....
CHRIS CORNELL

Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on...
CHRIS CORNELL

I will say Soundgarden if Audioslave draws a blank stare. I'm not beyond that.
CHRIS CORNELL There was nothing the matter out there. It was in here, with me.

I decided I'd better go ...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
CHRIS CORNELL

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them b...
CHRIS CORNELL It was a little bit disappointing to give up a late goal like that. I think they came out and just s...
CORNELL GLEN It always (feels bad) when you miss early chances. If I didn't score, the guys might be kicking my b...
CORNELL GLEN He brings that kind of ability. I'm looking for big things out of him. Now, he's certainly got to co...
CORNELL FORD He's got great pro potential, and he's going to be a lot bigger. If you can scoop up a kid like that...
CORNELL FORD Every kid is different, and you're not going to hit it off with every single kid. They're going to p...
CORNELL FORD Merlot is something I made up late one night. I don't want to get too caught up in the cuteness of t...
CORNELL BELCHER A large segment of Americans are faith voters, who make sense of a great deal of their lives through...
CORNELL BELCHER Here the first of the things that happened, happened. The first of the things important enough to no...
CORNELL WOOLRICH One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat t...
CORNELL WOOLRICH I took a few dragging steps toward the locker-room door. 'You're doing something to me that I wouldn...
CORNELL WOOLRICH

Soundgarden was incredibly democratic, and I was really proud of that. I felt like we got along bett...
CHRIS CORNELL

You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
CHRIS CORNELL

There are a handful of Soundgarden songs that work acoustically, but only a couple. It's not who...
CHRIS CORNELL

Soundgarden signing to a major, then Mother Love Bone, and seeing the same happen to Alice in Chains...
CHRIS CORNELL

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.
CHRIS CORNELL

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...
EZRA MILLER

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; t...
EZRA POUND The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into ...
GEORGE EZRA

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; ...
EZRA POUND A lot of what I listened to growing up was blues, but also folk and indie music. So there's this...
GEORGE EZRA

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in bi...
EZRA POUND

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew n...
EZRA POUND

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...
EZRA POUND

The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
EZRA POUND

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we...
EZRA POUND

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
EZRA POUND

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe...
EZRA POUND

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that...
EZRA POUND

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
EZRA POUND

Wars are made to make debt.
EZRA POUND

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap of...
EZRA POUND

It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it cl...
EZRA POUND

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
EZRA POUND

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of ...
EZRA POUND

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
EZRA POUND

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more in...
EZRA POUND

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUND

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herdi...
EZRA POUND

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up...
EZRA POUND

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herdi...
EZRA POUND

Look in the Mirror that's your competition".
MEIR EZRA

Difficult roads often road to beautiful destinations.
MEIR EZRA

Live your life happily
MEIR EZRA

Give God your weakness and hell give you its Strength
MEIR EZRA

Be your own hero
MEIR EZRA

Live your Dreams
MEIR EZRA

There is no elevator to the success, You have to take the stairs.
MEIR EZRA

Life is a one time offer, use it well
MEIR EZRA

Failure is Success in Progress
MEIR EZRA

If it is important to you, then you will find a way.
If not you'll find an excuse.
MEIR EZRA

Sharing is the Part of Life
MEIR EZRA

Work hard & Be Proud of what you achieve
MEIR EZRA

Believe is Yourself
MEIR EZRA

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
MEIR EZRA

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

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