Quotes & Sayings About Antonio Vivaldi

I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my 'Pinhead Mood Music'. Called Al Santo Sepolcro (At The Holy Sepulchre), it opens more like a piece of modern orchestral music, and although it it moves toward Vivaldi's familiar harmonies, there is always the threat that it will fall back into dissonance. The piece progresses in an exquisite agony, poised on a knife edge between beauty and disfigurement, joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. Perfect. — Doug Bradley

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away? — Jodi Picoult

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding. — Guy Finley

I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time. — Gautam Singhania

It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded. — Anne Tyler

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. — Edward Gibbon

I've always been able to make erroneous decisions very quickly. — Herb Kelleher

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears! — Meher Baba

About the only question that we would say and this is a big one in our lives that we would say you don't just use pure reason to decide the answer to is anything that affects your happiness, because then gut and reason answer very different questions. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?" — Sheena Iyengar

As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions. — Idries Shah

Work is my recreation,
The play of faculty; a delight like that
Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
In darting through the water,
Nothing more. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I hug him. I forget about my fears, about who I am and who he is, and I hug him. He keeps a tight grip on me like I'm his last hope, like I'm the only thing holding him together. We are a mingle of limbs, a frantic mess of intertwined heartbeats racing one another. — Tammy Faith

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. — Alice Walker