Opaki Gejmeri Quotes & Sayings

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. — Dave Brubeck

If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy. — Ethan Hawke

A man sees only what concerns him ... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects! — Henry David Thoreau

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it. — Lu Xun

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. — Alan Bennett

Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it. — Pirjo Honkasalo

I always wanted to write as much as perform. — Colin Quinn

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him. — George Bernard Shaw