Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Barry

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

Bernhard Schlink

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Craig Newmark

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

Drew Carey

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Donnie Yen

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

James Levine

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

James Levine

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

George Crumb

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

Eric Liu

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

Kathleen Battle

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

Miriam Makeba

I was so scared. Such a big orchestra

David Ogden Stiers

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Mark Thielen

I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.

Pat Miller

It is extraordinary - the orchestra tells you so much about the stage and what's going on,

Christopher Young

Usually when I am approached to do a score for a horror movie, it's to attempt a repeat performance of what I did way back on 'Hellraiser' or 'Jennifer 8' - one of those really orchestral scores.

James Levine

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

Nick Flynn

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it. Part of why she left him was this delusion of greatness and identifying it very directly with being an artist.

Bill Moyers

The delusional is no longer marginal.

Saint Ignatius

It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

Xavier Amador

One of his delusions drove him to testify, If I can just get up and talk to the American people, I will be set free.

Bhagavad Gita

One who neither hates the presence of enlightenment, activity, and delusion nor desires for them when they are absent.

Gabriel Polk

Because of the way you were acting. I didn't need his evidence. I saw your delusions myself.

Jack Black

Never for a second did I think of myself as the sexiest guy in the world. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Steven Millhauser

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

Chuck Palahniuk

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.