Quotes of: Classical-composers Keyword

What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that's why I can't take much stock in the idea of going through a list of boo...

How to Make Sense

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

The Cruelest Month: Spring, Nature, and Love in Classical and Medieval Lyrics

The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested “in how they feel and in their point of view.

Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of t...

Charles Rosen

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.

Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?

Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

I have received the command from Heaven: May my time be always long and prosperous.

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective

So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and th...

Nigel Lythgoe

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

Marianne Faithfull

You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.

Ezra Miller

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them ...

Ji-Hae Park