Gerding Theater Quotes & Sayings

Rucksacks. What do people whose life stops here take with them? Makina could see their rucksacks crammed with time. Amulets, letters, sometimes a huapango violin, sometimes a jaranera harp. Jackets. People who left took jackets because they'd been told that if there was one thing they could be sure of over there, it was the freezing cold, even if it was desert all the way. They hid what little money they had in their underwear and stuck a knife in their back pocket. Photos, photos, photos. They carried photos like promises but by the time they came back they were in tatters. — Yuri Herrera

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time. — Yoshi Wada

First, my fear; then, my curtsy; last my speech. My fear is your displeasure; my curtsy, my duty; and my speech, to beg your pardons. — James Shapiro

Can you really see and hear Him, or is He still the Unknown God to you? It's time for an awakening. — Karen Wheaton

He took one of my hands and placed it against his chest, above his heart. You really thought I'd forgotten you? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I take full responsibility for my life and my career. — Mark Fuhrman

We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know. — Anne Rice

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized. — Arthur Cravan

We're performing several shows in the Canary Islands. — George Duke

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it. — Ken Livingstone

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. — Sydney Pollack

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. — Harold Taylor

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. — Baltasar Gracian

When I came to this city, I would have agreed with anyone who said there was little mystery left in the world. But in you, madam, first in your image, then in your living self, I saw the allure of something far away and as secret as the stars. As I reached towards this unknown, I began to feel like a man who has ridden through a vast desert, never knowing anything but the sand around him and the dry road under him, then comes upon the mirage of a garden and a city, and finds that the mirage is real, and that it is bigger than the desert; that the desert was, after all his walking, only a small part of the mirage"
"Then you felt love, which is the state of feeling desire and the fulfillment of desire at the same time," she said. — K.J. Bishop