Modernisme Quotes & Sayings

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes. — Aaron Copland

The human heart would never pass the drunk test ... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it. — Tennessee Williams

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated. — Brian P. Cleary

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well. — Edmund S. Muskie

Stillness is the altar of spirit. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill. — Stanley Hauerwas

I'm sick of always doing the professional thing for prudential reasons.' I — Ross Macdonald

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way." — Christopher Galvin