Fortmanns Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through. — Edward Abbey

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters. — Brandon Cruz

I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable. — James L. Brooks

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life. — J.C. Ryle

There was a little too much of the best intentions going on — Charles Dickens

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say. — Cate Blanchett

People shouldn't be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I'm not doing what I promise. — Mark Walter

In silence there is a perfection which any toil injures. — Bryant McGill

Done to death by slanderous tongue — William Shakespeare

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective," where empty bombast and a bourgeois strictness of morals contradicted each other? Ah, the principles and points of view constantly did that; it became so hard for Hans Castorp's civilian responsibility to distinguish between opposed positions, or even to keep the premises apart from each other and clear in his mind, that the temptation grew well-nigh irresistible to plunge head foremost into Naphtha's "morally chaotic All. — Thomas Mann

God's irony: that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb! — Alan Keyes

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening — Pauline Oliveros