Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bela Bartok

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

Bede Griffiths

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

B. R. Ambedkar

Learn to live in this world with self-respect

B. H. Liddell Hart

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

B. F. Skinner

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

B. F. Skinner

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Billy Corgan

I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.

Bill Crawford

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Bill Crawford

The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.

Jeffrey Steele

It doesn't take much to wipe out the treasury,

John Boitano

I thought we were going to get wiped when we were down 14-0.

Harry Ponfil

If they can get that they can wipe out my account.

Rev. Barham

He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.

Bob Marley

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

Richard Preston

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

Rick Najera

New York was the place where everyone got wiped out.

Craig Miller

A lot of the departments down there have been wiped out, ... There's no 911 for us.

Morton Feldman

Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

Curtis Jones

He seemed kind of ticked-off. His fists were doubled, clenched down by his side.

John Cross

My fists get clenched, my muscles get tight, I'm getting hot.

Danny Devito

When we get out of this, I'm gonna shove my fist right into your ass, hard and fast Not in the sexual way! In the 'I am pissed off' sort of way.

Andy Roddick

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

Anne Schwartz

The kids told us that the suspect regularly punches them with her fists and hits them with a broomstick and belt.

Lamon Brewster

I heard that he said something like that, ... In the ring, it's only me and (Krasniqi). My trainer told me to let my fists be the judges.

Jens Lehmann

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

Jim Carrey

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

Gregory David Roberts

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.