Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Robertson Davies

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

Zubin Mehta

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

Yoko Ono

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

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.

Neville Marriner

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Irwin Corey

Beauty is in the behind of the beholder!

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Tim Franklin

I welcome the competition. It makes you sharper and better. I don't take any reader for granted.

Zadie Smith

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

Twyla Tharp

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

Martha Grimes

I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.

Louis Menand

It's very hard to know who your readers are, but that's who I'm... if I have somebody in my head, that's probably who it is.

Norman Spinrad

I was a precocious reader.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

Khaled Hosseini

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.