Finzi Quotes & Sayings

Someday you'll understand. You'll have your own children, and they'll mean more to you than the world. A wife has to defend her children, even against her own husband. Not that I expect you to be easily cowed. But sometimes, despite all you say and do, your husband won't be dissuaded from folly. When that happens, as a mother you have to close ranks. Your first responsibility is to your children. To salvage what you can. Even if they hate you for it. — David Walton

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology. — Cass Sunstein

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.
Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes. — Craig Raine

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues. — Mahatma Gandhi

I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on. — Anne Roiphe

I have a long list of things that make me mad. — Dick Cavett

It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energy as one pushes them through their lives. — Larry McMurtry

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause. — John F. Kerry

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. — Gerald Finzi

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work. — Gerald Finzi

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal. — Jonathan Kozol

It all boils down to the music. That's what causes longevity. — Britney Spears

There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself. — Chris Hadfield

Fall for someone you know will leave you,
sooner rather than later. — Ann Aguirre

The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt. — Rick Riordan

I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times. — Joel Kinnaman

And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. — Oscar Wilde