Van Hentenryck Quotes & Sayings

In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts is his quality as a human being. For music is created by Man for Man. And if someone sees nothing more than notes in it, this can perhaps be very interesting, but it cannot enrich him. And music should exist for one purpose only; to enrich Man and give him something he has lost in most respects. — Herbert Von Karajan

Truth can stand by itself ... If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth. — Thomas Jefferson

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father. — Dominic Cooper

I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories. — Cheri Bustos

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. — Thomas Sowell

This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them. — Alexis Hall

This loneliness won't leave me alone. — Otis Redding

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life. — Marya Hornbacher

Depressed beyond what I'd previously thought possible, I stripped, showered, and slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt and headed for my mom's, trying to figure out why a bank would charge twenty dollars for insufficient funds when they know you don't have it. — Kit Frazier

Loosening his tie with one hand, Quentin stepped out into the cold clear winter air and flew. — Lev Grossman

I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience. — Zachary Cole Smith

What's here doesn't please you,
what's far off you crave.
Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides — Anne Carson

Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible ... Jus t legalize it and tax it like we do liquor. — Morgan Freeman