Stravinskys Octet Quotes & Sayings

As content creators, we separate ourselves from the public while we create our product until we are finished and make it public - because that is what our means of production and distribution long demanded; only now are we learning to collaborate during the process. — Jeff Jarvis

because she couldn't write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn — Lydia Davis

You put your back into the work. For unless you could manage to provide yourself with the means of warming up, you and everyone else would give out on the spot. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The popular music wasn't interesting-bad, it was bad-bad. Auto-Tuned vocalists who couldn't really sing; offensively simplistic instrumentation; grating melodies. Like they thought we were stupid. — Leila Sales

I could not simplify myself.
(From the suicide note of a character named Nejdanov) — Ivan Turgenev

I am a big barbecue-sauce guy. — Rick Majerus

I'm sorry, I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all. — Sarah Dessen

You can be confused later. But come on my face now, please? — Kylie Scott

I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be. — Jill Bolte Taylor

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. — William Ellery Channing

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens. — David Brin

It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard. — Alexandra Roach