Peter Shrieve-don

“It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”
― Miles Davis

“The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not”
― Charles Barkley

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov