Star Trek Tng Worf Quotes & Sayings

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. — Elliott Carter

Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. — Terry Southern

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away. — Ian Dury

It is the glory and good of Art
That Art remains the one way possible
Of speaking truth - to mouths like mine, at least. — Robert Browning

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. — Stephen King

The swath of fiery orange along the horizon was like a crack in a potter's kiln. — Jack Nolte

Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. — Seneca.

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures. — John Burnside

There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that outshine the girls in the US. The variable factor is the educational system, the society and the parents. — Jamie Le Fay