Hammerklavier Quotes & Sayings

Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language. — Michio Kaku

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind. The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes. The gross appetite of love becomes most dangerous when it is elevated, or rather, indeed, disguised by sentimental passion. — Edward Gibbon

You are the epitome of the word selfless, you did something knowing you wouldn't be able to come home, knowing that your country would have very mixed feelings and yet your integrity on what you believe was right or wrong or should be public knowledge was more important to you than almost your own comfortability and the life that you had lived for so long. So I would like say thank you to him. — Shailene Woodley

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories. — Gail Sheehy

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. — Robert H. Jackson

What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
Make yourselves scabs? — William Shakespeare

No one is just anything. You all cast ripples throughout the world with small actions sometimes having such profound effect. — Julia P. Lynde

I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse. — Romeo LeBlanc

I love you, crossbar,' whispered Karou and petted it. — Laini Taylor

I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than an actual transition. I enjoy all of those things, which is why they remain a part of my life. — Brian J. White

I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel. — Marc-Andre Hamelin

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation. — Mindy Grossman

If I could predict the trends, they would already be there. — Tim Gunn

When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place. — Zoe Sugg

If you have reservations about the system and want to change it, the democratic argument goes, do so within the system: put yourself forward as a candidate for political office, subject yourself to the scrutiny and the vote of fellow citizens. Democracy does not allow for politics outside the democratic system. In this sense, democracy is totalitarian. — J.M. Coetzee

Think of what would happen to us ... if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. — Thomas Lansing Masson