Honegger Composer Quotes & Sayings

The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business. — Scott Bakula

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page. — Oprah Winfrey

Negative thoughts force us to take precautions; positive thoughts encourage us to take actions — S.E. Sever

If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry. — Mahatma Gandhi

A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you. — Carol Grace

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. — Arthur Honegger

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created. — William Weld

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not. — Miles Davis

Unfortunately, we may not always fully enter into the mysteries of Christ, because we don't persevere in praying the Rosary. We forget that, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, prayer can be a real battle (135). Sometimes the attacks in this battle are dryness in praying the Rosary. Well we should keep praying it. Sometimes as we get ready to pray the Rosary, we suddenly feel an aversion, fatigue comes over us, and our minds think of a million other things that have to be done. We should keep praying it. — Michael Gaitley

Devils are actually angels. — David Foster Wallace

...your skin is so tight you can't shut your eyes without opening your mouth. — Charles Frederick Briggs

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. — Arthur Honegger

He had certainly set his eyes on more voluptuous creatures , but something about her lack of glamour engaged him. Such women were in his experience often more entertaining company than beauties like Julia. They could be flattered or bullied into acts the beauties would never countenance and be grateful for the attention. — Clive Barker

But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and bad can sleep easy. — Miljenko Jergovic

I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost. — Elizabeth Madox Roberts

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead. — Arthur Honegger