Concertgebouw Orkest Quotes & Sayings

Never praise your cider or your horse — Benjamin Franklin

True nobleness in soul is only evinced in never suffering station to tempt us into a forgetfulness of ourselves and of what we owe to others. — John Tyler

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs. — Jack Horner

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention. — Ron Lewis

It's post-traumatic stress disorder. When these women go ballistic and shoot their husbands or slice off their dicks, they aren't thinking about the consequences . . . just about stopping the aggression. — Jodi Picoult

What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn't be any different, wouldn't feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can't tame we talk about. — Jeanette Winterson

Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again. — Stephen Jay Gould

If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high. — Tony Dungy

In fact she herself once blamed me
Kyprogeneia
because I prayed
this word:
I want. — Sappho

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds. — Elizabeth Prentiss

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! — Philip James Bailey

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie. — Clarence Darrow

That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers. — Rob Sheffield

Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure. — Steven Pressfield

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg