Atonality Schoenberg Quotes & Sayings

Such was the formidable rival with whom Ichabod Crane had to contend, and, considering all things, a stouter man than he would have shrunk from the competition, and a wiser man would have despaired. He had, however, a happy mixture of pliability and perseverance in his nature; he was in form and spirit like a supple-jack - yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke; and though he bowed beneath the slightest pressure, yet, the moment it was away - jerk! - he was as erect, and carried his head as high as ever. — Washington Irving

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. — William Butler Yeats

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. — Theodore Roosevelt

Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles. — Maya Rodale

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now. — Curtis LeMay

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier. — Vanessa Paradis

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization. — Earl Browder

The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year. — Amity Shlaes

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. — William Hazlitt

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts. — Sebastian Faulks

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name. — Charles Spurgeon

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. — George Bernard Shaw

Honestly," he says, "I judge writers on how they write queries. If you're a good writer, you're a good writer." And if not, then not. — Keith Gessen

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

You look like a whore.' The soft words barely stirred the air by Damen's ear, inaudible to anyone else. Laurent murmured: 'Filthy painted slut. Did you spread for my uncle the way you did for Kastor? — C.S. Pacat