Elliott Carter Quotes

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

Elliott Carter

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Color

• Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Children
  • American
  • Best

• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Serious

• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Study
  • Photography
  • Bicycle

• In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Great
  • Study
  • Progress

• We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Serious
  • Forget
  • Will

• When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Different
  • Success
  • Study

• The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Knowledge

• I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Serious
  • Weird
  • Obscure

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Joker

• I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Future
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Want
  • Serious
  • Cricket

• The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Serious
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Me
  • Serious
  • Become

• Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Horses
  • Stream
  • Crossing

• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Study
  • Discipline

• There's not one part of me that wants to go crazy and do anything out of the ordinary, but it would be nice to do something and not have it spread all over the place. But that's the world we live in now, and you either have to accept it or figure it out - or become a villain, I guess.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • World
  • Live
  • Nice

• The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Small
  • Dog

• All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• He who lives to God rests in his Redeemer's love, and is trying to get rid of his old nature - to him every sorrow, every bereavement, every pain, will come charged with blessings, and death itself will be no longer the ' king of terrors,' but the messenger of grace.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • God
  • Trying
  • Nature

• Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

  

  Elliott Carter
  • Serious
  • Study