Landowska Wanda Quotes & Sayings

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul. — O. Henry

In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die. — George Pattison

Diligence, word-lust, empathy equal growing objectivity and then what? Story. Story. Dammit, story! — Stephen King

No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor. — Sebastian Faulks

I never practice; I always play. — Wanda Landowska

Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is. — Bill Gates

Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth! — Wanda Landowska

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure. — Wanda Landowska

Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers. — Wanda Landowska

The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen. — Wanda Landowska

The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The biggest virtue is in forgiving even those who never apologize, and in being kind to even those who are not kind to you. — Yasmin Mogahed

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. — Isaac Watts

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. — Tom Robbins

Friendship is more important than truth. — Wanda Landowska

You play Bach your way, and I'll play him his way. — Wanda Landowska

Jace karate chopped his wrist, and Eric's fingers went numb. Step away from the eggs, Sticks. — Olivia Cunning

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention. — Joan Rivers

The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work. — Wanda Landowska

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn't marry an idiot. — Julia Quinn

Fear is flooding over me, like water.
The living know nothing. Teach me, dead ones, how to die without fear, or at least without horror. Because death is senseless, as is life. — Mesa Selimovic

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware. — Wanda Landowska

I got an almost clear peripheral look at the guy's left fist. I might could recognize his pinkie." * — Darynda Jones

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce