Nedelec Violin Quotes & Sayings

When I was young and knew Virginia Woolf slightly, I learned something that startled me - that a person may be ultrasensitive and not warm. She was intensely curious and plied one with questions, teasing, charming questions that made the young person glow at being even for a moment the object of her attention. But I did feel at times as though I were "a specimen American young poet" to be absorbed and filed away in the novelist's store of vicarious experience. Then one had also the daring sense that anything could be said, the sense of freedom that was surely one of the keys to the Bloomsbury ethos, a shared secret amusement at human folly or pretensions. She was immensely kind to have seen me for at least one tea, as she did for some years whenever I was in England, but in all that time I never felt warmth, and this was startling. — May Sarton

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation. — Elizabeth Gilbert

We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice. — David Eddings

We think of and talk about the Industrial Revolution as a singular event, but in reality, it spanned decades. It wasn't really a revolution but a gradual evolution with revolutionary implications. — Alex Moazed

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. — Barbara Jordan

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love. — Italo Calvino

Good People bring out the good in other people. — Anonymous

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph. — Josip Novakovich

Eternal love or eternal damnation .. Tears of Crimson — Michelle Hughes

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order. — Walter Rudolf Hess

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power? — Aiden Wilson Tozer