Busoni Composer Quotes & Sayings

I give it to you now because, child of soldier, child of man, child of angel, it is not necessary to win the battle, if in the end, you win the war. — Jessica Shirvington

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up. — Charlie Munger

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do. — Bill Moyers

I have this thing built into my contract that the club has to put up a sign that says my act "contains the strongest language and material content imaginable," but, believe it or not, I still get complaints. People want you to be what they want you to be. If they see you on TV and that's what they like, they want you to be EXACTLY like that when they see you live. And if you're not, some of them get upset. — Joe Rogan

To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin. Nations who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such ideas. — Jean Meslier

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. — Casey Stengel

I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle. — Johann Lamont

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor. — Elizabeth Strout