Violin Related Quotes & Sayings

Anchor points. You can't escape them... And maybe you shouldn't. — Kelly Thompson

There was something, both in fiction and in his life (Nabokov), that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.
I could invent violin or be devoured by the void. — Azar Nafisi

My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked. — Gunther Oettinger

I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change things about the character as I look at them. — Dustin Diamond

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through. — C.S. Lewis

I am cursed with a terminal case of curiosity," he said. "I am jealous, selfish, acquisitive, territorial and possessive. I have a terrible temper, and I know I can be a cruel son of a bitch." He cocked his head. "I used to eat people, you know. — Thea Harrison

The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. — George Carlin

It is our responsibility to look for meaning in life, even in the darkest times, and whatever the circumstances we always have a vestige of free will. — Viktor E. Frankl

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire. — Joan Hickson

In his forward to the English edition of Invitation to a Beheading (1959), Nabokov reminds the reader that his novel does not offer 'tout pour tous.' Nothing of the kind. 'It is,' he claims, 'a violin in the void.'

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There was something, both in his fiction and in his life, that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away. I think that is what drove me to create the class. My main link with the outside world had been the university, and now that I had severed that link, there on the brink of the void, I could invent the violin or be devoured by the void. — Azar Nafisi

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. — George J. Mitchell

What will you prefer if you have new king or the king of good times. — Institute For Translation Of Hebrew Literature

Compassion has dropped so far out of sight these days that many are confused about what is required. It even inspires overt hostility. — Karen Armstrong