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.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Ryan Murphy

Tone is everything in TV.

Truman Capote

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Oh no, Nick" Jaime said in tones of supremely unconvincing shock, "how could you? When my back was turned for one momement. And my food was so delicious.

Samuel Beckett

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Steve Zahn

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

Vince Vaughn

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

Vince Carter

I'm just trying to set the tone for my teammates. I'm not trying to take over the game. It's for my team. I'm just being aggressive. I think that doing that, it frees up a lot of other things.

Marcel Proust

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.

Joe Moore

Knowing what they have to pay for the next four years would be a luxury for their budgeting.

Jim Calhoun

I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't see some different teams in the semifinals than what people are predicting. And I wouldn't be surprised to see someone play four games in four days. That's just the way this season has gone.

Ricky Woods

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't (make up) this game. They might not have school down there for three or four weeks.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Chuck D.

I would say it's highly unusual, ... I couldn't tell you if it's ever happened. I'm sure there's been times when there were three, but four is ... Wow, that's pretty good.

Woodie Fryman

Just like anyone, I had my good games and bad, but the last four years in Montreal were really enjoyable.

Chris Higgins

Just wanted to let you know your wife is four weeks pregnant' -- those were the first words out of the doctor's mouth.

Mark Richt

Just three or four weeks ago, I was saying we were as healthy as we've been, ... Now we might be as banged-up as we've ever been.

Terry Roberts

keep the next group down to four or five.