Gewandhausorchester And Andris Quotes & Sayings

As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such. — Chevy Stevens

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing. — Miguel Nicolelis

I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe. — Anne Sexton

I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build. — Ace Hood

What happened was that I caught a glimpse of something I desperately needed to believe in at that point in my life. I wanted to believe there could be something within you that was so essential and so courageous that nothing - no boyfriend, no employer, no trauma - could tarnish or rob you of it. And if you had that kind of unbreakable core, not only would it always be yours, but even in your darkest moments others would see it in you, and help you out before the worse came to the absolute worst. — Gwen Cooper

Never turn your back on the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe ... unless you want a bucket of water thrown on your head. — Wendy Mass

One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. — George Orwell

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually. — Liz Phair

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. — Roald Dahl

I laughed on the way home, and I laughed again for sheer satisfaction when we reached the garden and drove between the quiet trees to the pretty old house; for when I went into the library, with its four windows open to the moonlight and the scent, and looked round at the familiar bookshelves, and could hear no sounds but sounds of peace, and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness, and rescued me from a life like that I had just seen -- a life spent with the odours of other people's dinners in one's nostrils, and the noise of their wrangling servants in one's years, and parties and tattle for all amusement. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Suppose you recite the Prajna Paramita Sutra only once. It might be a very good recitation. But what would happen to you if you recited it twice, three times, four times, or more? You might easily lose your original attitude towards it. The same thing will happen in your other Zen practices. For a while you will keep your beginner's mind, but if you continue to practice one, two, three years or more, although you may improve some, you are liable to lose the limitless meaning of original mind. — Shunryu Suzuki

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. — Yogi Berra

We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist. — Jean-Michel Cousteau

Most Americans honestly believe America is the most powerful nation on earth, but actualy the most powerful nation is imagi-nation. — Zig Ziglar