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.

Cecelia Ahern

We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.

Bertrand Russell

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Angelina Jolie

I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it.

Marcellus Sommerville

He erases a lot of mistakes. It's a privilege to have him back there to do that. He comes up with big rebounds when we need them.

Monica Wright

I feel privileged to be a part of that.

Catherynne M. Valente

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

Bill Hybels

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

Antisthenes

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Bertrand Russell

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

Nasser Joudeh

The pursuit is still going on and the investigations into this are being conducted.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Aberjhani

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

Edward Everett

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.

Shannon Rempel

Our pursuit team is very strong, and can win a medal. I want to be part of that.

Dalai Lama

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.