Mehraneh Amir Quotes & Sayings

But, on the other hand, the study of music is one of the best ways to learn about human nature. This is why I am so sad about music education being practically nonexistent today in schools. Education means preparing children for adult life; teaching them how to behave and what kinds of human beings they want to be. Everything else is information and can be learned in a very simple way. To play music well you need to strike a balance between your head, your heart, and your stomach. And if one of the three is not there or is there in too strong a dose, you cannot use it. What better way than music to show a child how to be human? — Edward W. Said

If you're sure of who you are it doesn't really matter what people call you, does it? — Madonna Ciccone

The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages. — Don DeLillo

Please, Handsome Halvor, don't be angry. It makes me so sad when I don't hear your velvety voice admonishing me. — K.M. Shea

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life. — Mary Cassatt

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon. — Kate Zambreno

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. — Vince Cable