Filharmonic Acapella Quotes & Sayings

History is a big word ... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. — Antonio Tabucchi

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson. — Peace Pilgrim

I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn't as good as they wanted it to be. — Ira Glass

The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism. — Isaiah Berlin

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress. — Gena Rowlands

Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events. — Daniel Kahneman

I'm not very glamorous. — Freema Agyeman

Smoke a cigar. Sophie had heard him come in and found him there. She was surprised he — Danielle Steel

when their sarongs blew in the wind, he would avert his eyes for fear of what he might see if he looked up. — Anonymous

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)
— Stanley Milgram

The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it. — Aaron Funk

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.) — Bill Murray

It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable ... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations ... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts. — Harold S. Kushner

Research shows that allowing ourselves to forgive and forget can be healthy - it reduces pains, headaches, stress, and leads to a strong immune system. So I say: Why continue to hold grudges? We will just put our health in jeopardy, and lessen the number of pages and chapters that we still need to write in our book of life. — Kcat Yarza