Orchestrally Quotes & Sayings

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world. — Andrew Forrest

Aren't you that hick girl who lives out in the swamp? Do you even know what a computer is?
-Scott Waldron — Julie Kagawa

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. — Sylvia Plath

When I was a young kid, the best stuff on television was always the BBC period dramas - it was what we sat down as a family to watch and what people talked about and looked forward to. — Neil Jackson

These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible. — Joan Didion

Nay, father.
Some of us have been killing giants today and aren't in the mood to have a tea party.
- Thor, God of Thunder — Matt Fraction

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it! — Martha Graham

Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record ... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started waving, I thought, should I wave back and mess up the solo or should I just grin and carry on ? ... I just grinned — Martin Barre

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being. — Howard Kurtz

There is no such thing as isolated stress. Stress is always system wide. — Janet Gallagher Nestor

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities. — Kenny Smith

There is no way to peace, peace is the only way — Mahatma Gandhi

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross