Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tyndall

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Richard Parks Bland

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Robert Walzel

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Mary Gordon

My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings over a bed of rice.

Richard Rodgers

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Marguerite Blessington

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society

Dick Umile

I give a lot of credit to Kevin Regan. It?s not easy to stay composed when you?re down 3-0. I was proud of the way the guys responded.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Erik Zanen

Life is one big gift you keep on recieving.

Seneca

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy

Ken Johnson

Many times in life you take struggles and disappointments to realize the potential and gifted talents that they have.

Charlize Theron

McDormand is an incredible gift to the cinema, ... There's something so organic about her character, straight from the gut.

Harvey Fierstein

Maybe when you need the perfect gift for John Waters,

Caroline Rhea

My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I'm not a braggy mother but she is gifted - with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.

Caitlyn Jenner

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

Dick Gephardt

gifted national leader and a model public servant.

Donald Light

From the viewpoint of mass tort law firms, this is a gift from heaven: a huge number of people who have suffered terrible losses, with 24X7 media exposure.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Matthew Sweet

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

Sarah Palin

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Vitor Meira

I was telling (team co-owner) John Barnes that patience pays here. That's what we did the whole race. We were racing smart instead of aggressive. It paid off for us.

Rocco Buttiglione

If instead one talks about the United States, there's a turning point. You know where you can find it? In a film called Pretty Woman.

Terry Egan

So instead of PowerPoint you have presentation software and instead of Microsoft Word you have word processing software.

Elaine Elliott

She's pretty much had her way. You're always talking about containing, not stopping a player like that. It would be a victory to keep (Langhorne) from getting 20 instead of 30.

Bill Clinton

If they had been in office instead of me, we would have had peace in the Middle East.

Marvin Demoff

If they want to sign someone else instead of Larry and release him, he'll end up playing somewhere else. Players have only so many options.

Robert Hass

When I was younger, I was so crazy about poetry that I didn't notice who was noticing. It seemed to me so tremendous and large.

Robert Hass

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

Tao Lin

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Denis Diderot

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Edgar Allan Poe

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Johnny Pesky

If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.

Janine Turner

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

George Higgins

This proves there's no such thing as the No Smile Line, don't you think.

John Chambers

This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

Kirby Copeland

This proves a lot. We can come out and play with the No. 3 team in the nation.

Steve Mitchell

We're a service industry, what a town does is it proves services. We need to be able to look and see how we are raising revenues to provide these services.

Joe Davis

He kind of proves that you can still serve long after you take off your uniform.

Azzam Tamimi

If the tape is genuine, then this proves what we have been saying all along,

Michael Bailey

What it proves is it's not completely genetic. They have the same genes.

Bayan Jabr

I will punish them if (an investigation) proves they are responsible for any violations.

Takashi Sensui

There is no real success for the Xbox unless it proves successful in Japan.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Basil Hume

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

Chen Guangbiao

Society needs hundreds of hundreds of thousands of Chen Guangbiaos.

Sylvester Stallone

Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sam Kinison

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Abu Bakr

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Chevy Stevens

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.