Fiocco Allegro Quotes & Sayings

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
producing a confused agreeable mass
of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details. — Arnold Bennett

Do not be afraid to go forth and announce the Risen Christ, — Pope Francis

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. — Ernest Renan

Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent. — Saint Francis De Sales

Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But this new enthusiasm finally caused us some trouble, and it suffices to say, if I remember correctly, that it was in this way that my thoughts turned to the young maidens. — Hans Bellmer

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad. — Thomas Bernhard

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there. — Linus Torvalds

The path of success in business is invariably the path of common-sense. Nothwithstanding all that is said about "lucky hits," the best kind of success in every man's life is not that which comes by accident. The only "good time coming" we are justified in hoping for is that which we are capable of making for ourselves. — Samuel Smiles

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. — Bertolt Brecht

Hold onto the magic of being a boy( ... ) once you lose it you are always begging to find it again. — Robert McCammon

Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet. — David Sklansky

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time. — Graydon Carter

By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies. — Mary Page Keller