Harpsichords And Clavichords Quotes & Sayings

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. — Charles Frazier

Endless money forms the sinews of war. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing can change the past, including thought. However, dwelling on thoughts about the past does change our experience of the Now. When we drag the past into the present, everything else that belongs to the Now is marginalized and overlooked. All we see is the past or, more accurately, our story about it. All we can ever have of the past is our story about it, and that story is very unsatisfying. Our stories about the past don't feed our soul like the Now does. And worse, any story is usually a sad tale that keeps us caught up in negative feelings, and then those feelings become our current experience of life. — Gina Lake

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. — Barbra Streisand

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. — Jean Paul Gaultier

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. — Sandra Day O'Connor

The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, objects. It thinks. Film implodes discourse, it deliterates thought, it shrinks it to the compacted meaning of the preverbal impression or intuition or understanding. You receive what you see, you don't have to think it out ... Fiction goes everywhere, inside, outside, it stops, it goes, its action can be mental. Nor is it time-driven. Film is time-driven, it never ruminates, it shows the outside of life, it shows behavior. It tends to the simplest moral reasoning. Films out of Hollywood are linear. The narrative simplification of complex morally consequential reality is always the drift of a film inspired by a book. Novels can do anything in the dark horrors of consciousness. Films do close-ups, car drive-ups, places, chases and explosions. — E.L. Doctorow

We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want? — Jesse Ball

A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — Anita Loos

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise ... — Henry David Thoreau