Un Heureux Evenement Quotes & Sayings

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA. — Louis Bacon

Why is it that the musical public is seemingly so reluctant to consider a musical composition as, possibly, a challenging experience? When I hear a new piece of music that I do not understand I am intrigued - I want to make contact with it again at the first opportunity. It's a challenge - it keeps my interest in the art of music thoroughly alive. If, after repeated hearings, a work says nothing to me, I do not therefore conclude that modern composition is in a sorry condition. I simply conclude that that piece is not for me. — Aaron Copland

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out. — Tullian Tchividjian

A sensitive nose isn't always that great a gift. Plenty of smells are better unsmelt. — Ann H. Gabhart

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me. — Dick Van Dyke

Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Antony, and Potpan! — William Shakespeare

Idea 721. Lies always have a purpose; but a truth has no such compulsion! The very purpose of lies is that they have to be told somewhere. Otherwise there arises no necessity to create them. The truth exists as it is; only some confess and others do not. — Thiruman Archunan

It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up. — Mary Pickford

I loved her," Robinson said. "And I loved the sick girl you were when I met you, and I loved the good student and the bad driver. I loved the car thief, the hitchhiker, the quoter of novels I haven't read, and the hater of Slim Jims ... Axi Moore, I've loved every you there ever was. — James Patterson

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business. — Warren Buffett

Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true. — Steven D. Levitt

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. — Edwin Powell Hubble