Thommie Retter Quotes & Sayings

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. — Elliott Carter

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection. — Marcel Proust

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy. — Helena Norberg-Hodge

Death was not a door you could open and close at will. — Valery G. Olsen

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. — Oliver Goldsmith

He shrugged, facing the fire. But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. — Patrick Rothfuss