Guido Of Arezzo Quotes & Sayings

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified. — Helen Suzman

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West. — Moustapha Akkad

His heart, he said, had been the guide of his intellect." "That is just what I would fain believe. But, O Wynnie! the pity of it if that story should not be true, after all!" "Ah, my love!" I cried, "that very word makes me surer than ever that it cannot but be true. Let us go on putting it to the hardest test; let us try it until it crumbles in our hands, - try it by the touchstone of action founded on its requirements. — George MacDonald

Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen. — Catherynne M Valente

Then I remembered a joke told by a Tibetan friend: "What is the difference between a Buddhist and a non-Buddhist?" The answer: "The non-Buddhist thinks there is one. — Eric Dinerstein

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing. — John Dunne

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep. — William Batchelder Greene

The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all. — Darlene Love

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. — Leonard Cohen

Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had an active contempt. — Margaret Mitchell