Originsclassical Quotes & Sayings

I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. — Aimee Mann

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him. — Maria Montessori

The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms. — Johannes Stark

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything. — Edgar Meyer

On some level, although we can't handle the pain of acknowledging it, Good Friday happens every day. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page. — Jane Hirshfield

This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer. — Mark Twain