Glain 1oo Quotes & Sayings

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started. — George Murray

As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters ... What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow. — Russell Sherman

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery. — Jane Badler

He wished summer was over. At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see his grades, concrete proof of his success at something. — Maggie Stiefvater

The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table. — Edward Hirsch

What matters is how well we have loved. — Barack Obama

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it. — David Lee Roth

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words. — Rob Bell

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it. — Sarah Sutton

O, I don't want to say it's mine. Certainly, I'm leading, there's no question about that. But we have got a long way to go. — Donald Trump

I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them. — Neil Marshall

To be in a band, at least according to the rules of rock in the 1970s, one must know how to play an instrument. But rather than waste time solving that problem, No Wavers ignored it. The point was simply to make music, not to learn how first. — Lydia Lunch

She walked on and on till she melted out of the picture - like - like a shadow jumping over a candle ... — Rudyard Kipling

A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She would also be well-spoken, even well-mannered and polite. Sardonic, witty and very amusing. She would be good company. In short: typically human and, despite everything, endearing. — Ronald Searle

There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either. — Robert Graves