Ashkenazy Pianist Quotes & Sayings

While she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together. — Monica Ali

And now, you till come, — Robert Hugh Benson

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams. — Vladimir Ashkenazy

I always write well in New York. — David Bowie

He laughed when she wrinkled her nose at the water that dripped on it.
"Here, baby," he said softly. "Let me dry that little bit of nose real fast before it washes off my freckles."
She grinned. "Your freckles?"
"Mine. All five," he said, and just to prove he could, kissed her again. — Dinah McCall

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me. — Donnie Wahlberg

I get pretty grumpy about TV. — Ian McKellen

Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse. — J.G. Ballard

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

At the end of your life, when you strip away all the accessories that are important to us now, only 3 things will be important: 1. Have you lived wisely? 2. Have you loved richly? 3. And have you served the world greatly? — Robin S. Sharma

This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and why we have come to think of accuracy, sincerity, and authenticity as virtues. Bernard Williams' account of their emergence is as detailed and imaginative as his defense of their importance is spirited and provocative. Williams asks hard questions, and gives them straightforward and controversial answers. His book does not simply describe and advocate these virtues of truthfulness; it manifests them. — Alexander Nehamas

By Woden, God of Saxons,
From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday,
Truth is a thing that ever I will keep
Unto thylke day in which I creep into
My sepulchre — William Cartwright

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Pain happens to everyone. To grow up, to fulfill your potential, to develop into what God wants you to be-this process takes support. No one succeeds alone. — Clay Aiken