Markevitch Conductor Quotes & Sayings

I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention. — Jill Scott

It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion. — William T. Vollmann

I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it. — Ken Schwaber

Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist. — Igor Markevitch

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God! — Billy Graham

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood? — Ashley Montagu

I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

The seven deadly sins ... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. — George Bernard Shaw

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall. — Adelaide Crapsey

Careful the things you say,
Children will listen.
Careful the things you do,
Children will see.
And learn.
Children may not obey
But children will listen.
Children will look to you
For which way to turn,
To learn what to be.
Careful before you say,
"Listen to me."
Children will listen. — Stephen Sondheim

Matilda said, Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable ... — Roald Dahl

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age. — Jim Parsons

In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [ ... ] The thoughts that came wanted to be wholly good. — Stephen King

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not. — LL Cool J

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. — Sidney Altman

For what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim. — Amor Towles