Josefowicz Quotes & Sayings

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure. — Leila Josefowicz

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways. — Leila Josefowicz

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. — Leila Josefowicz

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. — Leila Josefowicz

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. — Sam Abell

People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap. — Barry Ritholtz

A watched pot never boils. That's all you need to know about quantum physics. — Matt Haig

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm. — Leila Josefowicz

Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?"
Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second. — Dan Brown

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older. — Leila Josefowicz

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince. — Vince Lombardi

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. — Rumi

One day someone called the Institute and asked to speak to a particular dean. When his secretary said that the dean wasn't available, the caller hesitantly asked for Einstein's home address. That was not possible to give out, he was informed. The caller's voice then dropped to a whisper. "Please don't tell anybody," he said, "but I am Dr. Einstein, I'm on my way home, and I've forgotten where my house is."40 — Walter Isaacson

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting. — Leila Josefowicz

Look at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party ... Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here ... It is a racist thing. — Morgan Freeman

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. — Margaret Thatcher

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. — Margaret Deland

Thinking back, we decided the girls had been trying to talk to us all along, to elicit our help, but we had been to infatuated to see it. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort. — Leila Josefowicz

Make no sounds. Do not, under any circumstances, make any sounds.
She faltered. A whimper of unutterable pleasure escaped her tightly clenched teeth.
Deep inside her, a dam that had been ceaselessly reinforced crumbled. Years upon years of pent-up desires flooded her. Suddenly she couldn't care less that she must remain quiet and pliant.
She wanted. She wanted. She wanted.
She gripped him by the lapel and yanked him to her. — Sherry Thomas

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place. — Leila Josefowicz

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. — Leila Josefowicz

Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett. — George Herbert