Taruskin Richard Quotes & Sayings

I think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. And different ethnic make-ups in those countries present different challenges. — Rahm Emanuel

Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. — Martti Ahtisaari

First is the worst, second is the same, last is the best in any old game. — Christopher Paul Curtis

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be. — Gavin Extence

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. — E. O. Wilson

I felt like shit, but it was happy shit. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Everybody feels oppressed during a Wagner performance. That is part of the appeal. — Richard Taruskin

I've decided to be selfish and keep you all to myself for a while. — Dorothy Garlock

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus? — John Leonard

I am no warrior, but I am a ThunderClan cat. I stay in the nursery rather than hunt and fight because that is what I do best. I care for our young as though they were my own. This is my gift to the Clan, but I do it in my own chosen name. — Erin Hunter

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. — Cecil Beaton

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization. — Yitzhak Shamir