Toccata Quotes & Sayings

If a single nutty or dangerous vision comes to be sufficiently widely shared, demagogues may be able to ride it to power. — Christopher H. Achen

Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi - the one from his Sonata in A Major - come tripping out to meet me. The Toccata was my favorite composition; to my mind it was the greatest musical accomplishment in the entire history of the world, but I knew that if Ophelia found that out, — Alan Bradley

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. — Henry Ward Beecher

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. — Kevin Kline

Toccata II
A man sits pen in hand, paper
before him. What is on his mind
he will set down now, the word not to be spoken
lightly. As if of all
his words this was the one that touched the heart
of things and made touch
the last sense of all as it was the first, and the word
that speaks it loaded
with all that came strongest, a planet's-worth
of sunlight, cooling green, the close comfort
of kind. It is the world he must set down
now, also lightly, each thing
changed yet as it was: in so many fumblings traced back
to the print of his fingertips still warm upon it, the warmth
that came when he was touched.
The last, as he sets it down, no more than
a breath, though much
that is still to be grasped may turn upon it. — David Malouf

Beware the toast that has no ears — Edward Monkton

I need the protection of seeming weak. — Veronica Roth

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us. — Orson Scott Card

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time. — M.I.A.

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why. — Sybil Thorndike

I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country. — John Engler

He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag — Harry Truman

It's just a wonderful feeling to be a father and to have a kid. — Richard Grieco