Keepstones Quotes & Sayings

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. — Elliott Carter

For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail. — Austin Scarlett

We like to think that we plan what happens to us, but it is chance, surely, that lies behind so many of the great events of our lives
the meeting with the person with whom we are destined to spend the rest of our days, the receiving of a piece of advice whic influences our choice of career, the spotting of a particular house for sale; all of these may be put down to pur chance, and yet they govern how our lives work out and how happy
or unhappy
we were going to be. — Alexander McCall Smith

By contrast, training and goal-setting programs had a far greater impact on productivity than did anything involving payment.32 — Alfie Kohn

Many have said, "Follow my steps" I say to you, create your own paths, and follow no one, live, risk it all, die and be free. — Quetzal

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. — Tom Verlaine

If you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for? — Richard Paul Evans