Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Landau

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Nicholas Sparks

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Mary Timony

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

William Cowper

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Eben Alexander

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

Jane Hamilton

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Edward Young

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Thomas Reid

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

Steven Holl

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

Jeff Gordon

I'm just another link in the chain.

Tony McCoy

I don't like missing links on my CV. I really want to win the National more than anything else but you know what the race is like. Anything can happen." ()

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living