Pressante Music Quotes & Sayings

Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were, having infallibility in their own area of experience. Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended by a mere stepping-up or dimming-down of any one sense intensity, which is the procedure in hypnosis. And the intensification of one sense by a new medium can hypnotize an entire community. — Marshall McLuhan

Alas, how love can trifle with itself! — William Shakespeare

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who. — Rudyard Kipling

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes. — Ignatius Of Loyola

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. — Otto Dix

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't. — Morris Hite

The acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well ... — Henry Cavill

The wind's on the wold And the night is a-cold, And Thames runs chill Twixt mead and hill, But kind and dear Is the old house here, And my heart is warm Midst winter's harm ... — Bill Bryson

There was clairvoyance to their words and a tenderness in their inflections that instilled even in the most cynical of male hearts that faith and fate weren't just words, they were our guides and as long as you kept your heart open, sooner or later love would find its way into it. — Eric Monsky

It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go — Taylor Swift

Those who were beginning to grow old had an air of youth, while there was something mature in the faces of the young. — Gustave Flaubert

The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water ... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky ... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter. — Leonard Bernstein