Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Dave Brubeck

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Andre Previn

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

Michio Kaku

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Glenn Gould

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Andrew Solomon

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Mark Buehrle

One day, I'll hopefully pitch here in St. Louis. I love Chicago right now, and if they signed me to a lifetime deal, I'd sign it. But if I get the opportunity to put that (Cardinals) uniform on for at least one game, I'll do it.

Arne Duncan

This grant is really an investment in our collective future. It will help create great new schools in Chicago that will produce the kind of students who can one day grow up and lead companies like Abbott.

Daniel Clowes

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

Dan Henning

We knew Chicago was a good team going in there. We didn't know it was as good as it is on defense. We made a couple of errors, and they got ahead. That's the way they like to play.

Ed Shimon

To have a storm that actually stays together from all the way west of Kansas City to just south of Chicago is highly unusual.

Thomas Middleditch

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

Brooks Boyer

Obviously, Chicago is a great market to be a part of. It's a great, great job in a great, great market, so I think there are going to be plenty of candidates.

Bernard Harcourt

My sense is that 'business as usual' in Chicago politics is ripe for investigation.

John Parsons

On that particular day, the incidents occurred while we were transporting people to Chicago for a work day.