Gounod Quotes & Sayings

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein. — Charles Gounod

Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door. — Pseudonymous Bosch

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. — Charles Gounod

The luminous light that burns on the Arizona desert, out of long miles of untouched sage and sand. . . . Yes, that's where I want to be, on an observation car traveling swiftly into the Southwest. Losing myself in a shimmer of fine dust. — Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair. — Charles Gounod

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy. — Francis Of Assisi

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms? — Charles Gounod

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special. — Sebastian Vettel

The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. — David Levithan

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say. — Charles Gounod

I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.
Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of;
For I have often heard my mother say
I came into the world with my legs forward:
Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,
And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right?
The midwife wonder'd and the women cried
'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'
And so I was; which plainly signified
That I should snarl and bite and play the dog.
Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,
Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it.
I have no brother, I am like no brother;
And this word 'love,' which graybeards call divine,
Be resident in men like one another
And not in me: I am myself alone. — William Shakespeare

Growing up, birthdays weren't the best of times. — Eric S. Brown

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club. — Ann Leckie

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy. — Charles Gounod

Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons — Karen Marie Moning

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. — Charles Gounod

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth. — Tim Cahill

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them — Charles Gounod

It is only a mere fallacy to say you are quitting when your heartbeat is in tune with the beat. A real change is a real change! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah