Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin King

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Kurt Masur

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Charles Hazlewood

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

Brian Greene

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Evan Peters

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.

Daniel Barenboim

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

Frank Darabont

Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature.

Denis Diderot

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.

Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

Elbert Hubbard

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Elbert Hubbard

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elizabeth Bowen

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Elizabeth Bowen

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Parry Aftab

Lots and lots of parents want their kids' profiles down.

Russell Crowe

Lots of people noticed me, they just didn't give me up.

Hamid Karzai

Lots of people had much misinformation. The second report, the official report, will be much more accurate,

Rose Fong

Lots of people come in and tell us this is where they had their first date.

Patricia Green

Lots of people are moving out, ... I'm not the type to move out. I won't move out. Where would I go? Where will I go with these two old men?

Michelle Tea

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

Charlie McCreevy

Lots of member states seem to be wanting to put up unjustified barriers." ()

Judah Friedlander

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

Dan Gelber

Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.