Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

Florence Scovel Shinn

Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.

Florence Welch

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

Florence Welch

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

Florence Welch

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

Flannery O'Connor

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

Fiona Shaw

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

Fiona Apple

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

Fiona Apple

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

Fiona Apple

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

Henry Miller

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

Helen Keller

Fear: the best way out is through.

Cate Blanchett

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

Cassandra Clare

The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

Cassandra Clare

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

Cassandra Clare

The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.

Cassandra Clare

I must say, I rather like the way you manage Will.

George Eliot

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

Gottfried Leibniz

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.

Gore Vidal

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

Gina Bellman

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

Gina Carano

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

Gillian Flynn

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Gillian Jacobs

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

Harvey S. Firestone

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Harold Rosenberg

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Harold Pinter

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

James Dean

What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory.

James D. Watson

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

James Blunt

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.