Famous quotes containing the words saint, louis and/or blues:
“A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancementin a word, with more renunciation than you care forand so you flee the contagion.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Wait a minute, wait a minute, you aint heard nothing yet. Wait a minute I tell you. You aint heard nothing yet. Do you want to hear Toot, Toot, Tootsie?”
—Alfread A. Cohen, U.S., and Louis Silver. Jakie Rabinowitz (Al Jolson)
“The blues women had a commanding presence and a refreshing robustness. They were nurturers, taking the yeast of experience, kneading it into dough, molding it and letting it grow in their minds to bring the listener bread for sustenance, shaped by their sensibilities.”
—Rosetta Reitz, U.S. author. As quoted in The Political Palate, ch. 10, by Betsey Beaven et al. (1980)