Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Igor Stravinsky

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• With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Family

• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Every

• The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Lazy
  • Concentrate

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Honor

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Know
  • Professional

• As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Energy

• I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Proud

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fight

• I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I have the time needed to support the album and tour.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Support
  • Tour

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Dad

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Man
  • Marriage

• I love doing concert music.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Music

• The films, the music, the telly that I like is always a little bit more on the margins.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Music

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

  

  Bob Etheridge
  • People
  • Respect
  • Service

• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Time
  • Music
  • Man