Messiah Orchestra Quotes & Sayings

The end of his life, he was asked what stuck in his mind about his experiences in South America and on the Beagle. And he remembered climbing to the peak of the Andes in Peru or Chile - I can't remember - and then turning as he reached the peak and looking behind him. And he said, it was like the Hallelujah Chorus in the Messiah, playing with full orchestra, blaring in his head, because he was on top of the world. He was looking down almost like God upon this creation, which he had begun to sort out in his own mind as he'd been climbing, as it were. At the end of his life he was asked, "What's the most extraordinary experience you had?" And he remembered climbing to the peak of the Andes. And then he slept on it, and the next day he came back to the person and he said, "No, it was the rain forest. It was sitting there and feeling that there must be more to man than the breath in his body. — Krista Tippett

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant. — Jim Butcher

I don't play just villains. I like to have parts that are not simply villains. — Tommy Lee Jones

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. — Ed Koch

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species. — Leslie Stephen

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. — Quintilian

The thing that everyone liked about 'Entourage' is that these are fish-out-of-water guys living this dream. — Kevin Connolly

I admit that I look at my social media when I'm killing time, like on a plane and such. It's just less embarrassing getting caught on Twitter than getting caught playing Candy Crush. — Anna Kendrick

Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction. — Donald Barthelme

The bottom line is that there are very few families who have a family member with a catastrophic medical condition such as RDEB that can survive financially without help. — Silvia Corradin

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope. — Lynn Flewelling

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. — Klaus Nomi

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed. — Cecelia Ahern

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato