Noteworthy Composer Quotes & Sayings

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game. — Red Smith

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it. — Kathy Reichs

Never forget the importance of living with unbridled exhilaration. — Robin Sharma

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people. — Joss Whedon

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt. — Francis Bacon

At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need. — Shonda Rhimes

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain. — Teresa Medeiros

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it. — Rachel Kushner

We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it. — Samael Aun Weor

Accept that to be adult is to disappear, is to learn to hide to the point of vanishing? — Elena Ferrante

It is a brave man ... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. — James A. Garfield

Art has always been my salvation. — Maurice Sendak

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway. — Roger Delano Hinkins

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul. — John Buchan

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. — Alphonse De Lamartine