Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Jane Byrne

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Charles Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Charles Dickens

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Charles Dickens

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Stanley

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

Charles Spurgeon

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Charles Spurgeon

I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.

Charles Spurgeon

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Charles Spurgeon

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

Charles Spurgeon

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

Alan Watts

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.