Pedrazzini Violin Quotes & Sayings

Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there. — Nick Bilton

This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other. — Patience Strong

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities. — Robyn Hitchcock

The beauty and magnitude of a diva's voice resides, so the iconography suggests, in her deformity. Her voice is beautiful because she herself is not-and her ugliness is interpreted as a sign of moral and social deviance. Reading biographies of divas, I can't ignore the repeated references to physical flaws-for example, Benedetta Pisaroni's "features horribly disfigured by small-pox," prompting spectators to shut their eyes "so as to hear without being condemned to see." Audiences speculated that Maria Malibran was not anatomically a woman, but an androgyne or hermaphrodite-an aberrant physique to match her voice's magic power. — Wayne Koestenbaum

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding

He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over each other like an endlessly edited story. — Julia Quinn

Tell them to stand in the shop for even an hour and you'd think they'd been asked to reverse the cosmos. — Sunjeev Sahota

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first. — Ellen Goodman

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves. — Alireza Salehi Nejad