Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Irving Harper

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

Ismail Kadare

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Richard Bellzon

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Beck

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

Dan Stevens

I don't know much about my biological background.

Coco Lee

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

J. I. Packer

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Helen Thomas

I'm of Arab background.

Piper Perabo

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

Jodie Foster

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

Zadie Smith

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control

Michael Hancock

If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.

Danny Green

I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed.

Bruno Julliard

Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him.

Edmund Burke

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

Steven Pinker

My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

Michel Faber

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Jules Feiffer

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father