Knopf Publishers Quotes & Sayings

It's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there. — Tod Machover

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself. — Rachel Zoe

None of us knows what we can bear until we're asked, — Martin Pistorius

Fifty years ago, people went without clothes in order to eat. Today, people gladly go without food in order to buy clothes. And they do it again to fit inside them! — Sinclair Dumontais

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much. — Harvey Pekar

To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm. — ElRay L. Christiansen

Besides, he didn't have enough intact heartstrings to hand them to people to pull. — Ali Shaw

Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality. — Anthony Lawlor

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude. — John C. Maxwell

I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted. — Marvin Ammori

We live in a world defined by uniformity but still identify ourselves by our mutations. — Jamie Metzl