Rostropovich Berlin Quotes & Sayings

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick

Life is a series of problems. — Maxwell Maltz

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list. — John Berger

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Some guys don't have to work out as hard as other guys do, but if you balance all that together then your longevity is definitely going to be greater. So, I would tell my 20-year-old self not to over-train. — Andre Reed

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. — Bertolt Brecht

You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal. — Les Parrott

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian. — Bertrand Russell

When the mountain streams are frozen and the Nor'land winds are out; when the winter winds are drifting the bitter sleet and snow; when winter rains are making out-of-door life unendurable; when season, weather and law combine to make it "close time" for beast, bird and man, it is well that a few congenial spirits should, at some favorite trysting place, gather around the glowing stove and exchange yarns, opinions and experiences. — George Washington Sears

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between Horiki and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship. — Osamu Dazai