Lubranos Somerset Quotes & Sayings

Self-destruction is an art; cursed are the exponents. — Anurag Shourie

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on. — Richard Rodney Bennett

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. — Colin R. Davis

You do anything for the person you love," she said finally. "And then when you don't think you can give any more of yourself, you do. You keep going. Because it would kill you not to. — Anna Carey

Where words leave off, music begins. — Heinrich Heine

He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against. — Michael Ondaatje

Generations can follow this destiny, can stay close to it or depart from it, having thus the capability of giving to their nation a maximum of life and honor or a maximum of dishonor and shame. Sometimes only isolated individuals, abandoned by their generation, can reach this destiny. In that moment, they are the people, they speak in its name. All the millions of dead and of the martyrs of the past are with them, as well as the nation's life of tomorrow. — Corneliu Codreanu

The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading — Mortimer J. Adler

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again. — Nicole Scherzinger

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived. — Antony Beevor

I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were talking about that actually, who also felt kind of silly. When we had to run she was like, 'Oh God, we're both going to get fired.' The running sequences, it's a particular kind of humiliation because it's fun. — Mary-Louise Parker

Damn, but it was a night, Ned! Now, not to be outdone, it appears our reverend mother Hayes is inspired by Captain Cook's latest voyage to the South Pacific."
"I give the woman credit for creativity." Ned laughed. "Have you read John Hawkesworth's account of the voyage?"
Ludovic's brows lifted ever so slightly. "Come now, Ned, do I truly look like a man who entertains himself with books? — Victoria Vane

We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want — Jacque Fresco

My heart do be so big," she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it. — Torey L. Hayden

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. — James A. Garfield