Schnittke Composer Quotes & Sayings

We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings. — Elizabeth Kolbert

I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables. — Langdon Winner

Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family. — Jerry Della Femina

...I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand... — Pat Conroy

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' — Alfred Schnittke

If you possess a gentle spirit will move mountains. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. — Joseph Joubert

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form. — Terry Cole-Whittaker

Once on the road again, she found her center and determination to see this through. Let Perdue come for her. The vicious monster who'd made a living buying and selling people was going to feel her wrath.
As the light turned green, she steered right onto Flagler Street. A second after she pulled onto the main road, her heart jumped in her throat. A tow truck barreled down on her as it ran a red light. — Katie Reus

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator. — John Osborne

For once a hope was realized. I held in my hand a morsel of real solid joy: not a dream, not an image of the brain, not one of those shadowy chances imagination pictures, and on which humanity starves but cannot live — Charlotte Bronte

When I first began my career I had one dictum that I set myself: to be paid for my work, but not to work for pay. Fame makes it that much easier to follow that maxim." He gave her a sharp look. "At least it does so long as I recognize when I am beginning to paint the obvious, rather than painting what I must express. People would rather you did the same thing over and over again and it becomes very easy to fall into their trap - particularly when you're young and hungry. But the more you do so, the nearer you are drawn to something you should not be a part of that homogeneity that is the death of any form of creative expression. — Charles De Lint