Rostropovich Cellist Quotes & Sayings

Autumn is the greatest reminder: It reminds us how dreamlike beauties our earth has and it reminds us how all these beautiful dreams can easily vanish! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I do not fear death. I see what has gone before, through eyes that are not of this body. When I dream, my visions are of days yet to be. — Cathy M. Donnelly

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. — J.B. Priestley

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out. — Salman Rushdie

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things. — Desmond Tutu

If you are targeting the right customers they will be more motivated by value than price. — Carlos Castillo

Twenty years ago, chaos theory was all the rage. I wonder what happened with that. Maybe all the excitement over it become so organized that its initial entropy failed to fall apart and disintegrate into nothingness leaving its proponents re-illusioned in certainty. I remember seeing an employee at a local book store arranging a subsection for literature about chaos among the science books. "There's the problem." I thought. "How can there be a chaos section? Those books should be distributed randomly throughout the store... that is, if there was any real disorder to things. — Alex Bosworth

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.] — Harry S. Truman

She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. How are you going to tell about them? — Anais Nin

We also learned our own history and I was so grateful that such richness comes from our family stories. Now we will forever remember the day that a Russian cellist spoke the heart of Czech people. Rostropovich loved Prague and so he viewed that performance as a personal tragedy. — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set. — Doris Kearns Goodwin