Hovhaness Composer Quotes & Sayings

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock — John B. Keane

Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging environment. The — Ted Koppel

In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on. — Francesca Lia Block

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. — Marquis De Lafayette

I used to like people more, but now I have children and that changes your life in a lot of ways. Like you spend time with people you never would have chosen to spend time with, not in a million years. I spend whole days with people, I'm like, "I never would have hung out with you. I didn't choose you. Our children chose each other based on no criteria by the way. They're the same size. They don't care who they make me hang out with." — Louis C.K.

Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer. — Kathleen Robertson

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'
Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled. — Kim Harrison

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But ... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him? — Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at? — Leo Tolstoy

Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ...
... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to someone with a flamethrower for hands. Though he'd really lost it when Raven sang the lyric to Disco Inferno. — J.T. Bock

When I was around Bowie, I was nearing the bottom. When we were touring together, I looked at him as a kind of big-brother figure and I also looked at him as somebody I had a lot of respect for. The age and the period he's at in his life, I'd like to be there some day. He has a kind of content peace about him that's something to shoot for. — Trent Reznor

The composer ... joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds. — Alan Hovhaness

Mr Thornton sighed as he took in all this with one of his sudden comprehensive glances. And then he turned his back to the young ladies, and threw himself, with an effort, but with all his heart and soul, into a conversation with Mr Hale. — Elizabeth Gaskell

It is a mark of Henry's own unique religious opinions that he was able to persecute both Protestants and Catholics. The — Elizabeth Norton

What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
Seeming to bury that posterity
Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have
If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?
If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,
Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain. — William Shakespeare

I guess the biggest surprise I got going to Iran was that the Iranians really liked me as an American. — Elaine Sciolino