Isserlis Schumann Quotes & Sayings

Jesus, it's the beloved day we call Christmas Eve, the date we've set aside to remember and reflect upon your nativity. Luke took so much care to fix your birthday in the context of real history and a real world, but whether or not you were born anywhere close to December 25 is not important at all. That you were born - that you actually came from eternity into time and space - that's what's important, Jesus. I sing to you today with all the passion and delight I can possibly muster, "Born that man (including me) no more may die, born to raise the sons of earth (including me), born to give them (including me) second birth." For the certainty of your birth, and therefore my rebirth, I give you great praise. — Scotty Smith

I'm confused. Really confused. And it's a lot deeper than you think. Deeper ... darker ... colder. But tell me something. How could you have slept with me that time? How could you have done such a thing? Why didn't you just leave me alone? — Haruki Murakami

You are responsible for every element within the frame. — David DuChemin

When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. — Scott Adams

You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed. — Terry Goodkind

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you. — Ice-T

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat. — Lee Haney

You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty. — Dan Chaon

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it! — Georg C. Lichtenberg

When I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that I play. She's not fully fleshed out - she doesn't have her own name - but she shows up to do men's-magazine interviews. — Megan Fox

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God. — David Livingstone

The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection. — Johann Hari

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday. — Melanie Griffith