Abbado Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what happens after we die. It doesn't seem to me like there can be much past this. But I suppose I can conceive that what we make and do can last beyond us. Maybe in a different place, on another plane. — Ally Condie

Fashion is about today and tomorrow.
Nobody cares how good you used to be — Paul Smith

Lately, Mami's eyes have been so dark, I don't like looking into them because I'm afraid I'll fall in. — Raquel Cepeda

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. — Ethel Waters

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss. — Deb Caletti

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Servants think about their work, not what others are doing. — Rick Warren

The devil is busy
trying to take from us
what we get from God,
and so God bids us hold fast. — C. Nuzum

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight. — Peg Bracken

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands. — Vladimir Kramnik

For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life — Ronnie James Dio

I Fall upon the thorns of life.... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Not everything comes along just when you want it. There are times when choices just have to be made or you'll simply miss out. — Frances McDormand

I love the sound of snow ... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes. — Claudio Abbado

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution. — Ted Cruz

Mapleshade unsheathed her scarlet, broken claws. "Leave me alone," she rasped, forcing herself to lift her head and glare at her companion. "I don't need anyone. — Erin Hunter

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that. — Claudio Abbado