Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Gray

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

Ludwig van Beethoven

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

Paulo Coelho

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

Georg Solti

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Johannes Brahms

A symphony is no joke.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Deepak Chopra

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Robert Orben

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Sandra Cisneros

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

Vince Neil

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

Ruggiero Ricci

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

Walter Matthau

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Richard Jones

I'm worried about the storm. I'm watching TV, listening to the radio. Everything.

Jen Warden

Kim is a player who does a lot more than score. She is a player that really gives tremendous attention to the Mountain West . . . and she is earning all of the attention she is receiving.

Al Feldstein

Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

Cedric McGowan

James brought it to my attention in one of the timeouts that we had that I needed two more rebounds to get (20). I just worked hard to get it.

Rasheed Wallace

Keep us on the back-burner. We won't lose our swagger at all, because when you put that food on the back-burner, it's just simmering and it tastes better. When you got that food on the front burner, that's the one you're paying attention to the most, and that's the one that might burn. We're on that back-burner.

Jerry Cohen

Joyce is a perfect example of someone who saw an issue that needed attention and brought it forward to AARP. We were pleased to work with Joyce and Representative Hunt to change this law and help protect those using handicapped placards from identity theft. Working together, we have the power to make it better.

Roger Fox

I think it kind of got everybody's attention when it failed and we established a new citizens committee that really stepped up and helped us pass it this time.

Mark Cavallone

I think it has to change. You're going to see more attention to tie corporate strategy to the Internet. If that happens, not every stock is going to go up.

David Greene

Having our own Chase would be a way for us to get more attention. And it's a way to take away attention from the Cup guys racing in our series.

Rick Majerus

Golf is a diversion to get away from basketball, and then when he's golfing, I think his attention is diverted to plays. That's his New York Times crossword puzzle every day. This is the most enthused I've seen him in the 20-plus years I've known him.