Townes Van Zandt/personal Life

Famous quotes containing the words van, personal and/or life:

    Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.
    Madeleine [Blair], U.S. prostitute and “madam.” Madeleine, ch. 4 (1919)

    Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)