Frederick Delius Quotes
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
Quotes to Explore
-
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
-
There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
-
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
-
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
-
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
-
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
-
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
-
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
-
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
-
Death is the beginning of something.
-
I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
-
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
-
I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
-
Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
-
I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
-
To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
-
I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
-
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.
-
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
-
I can get through it, ... It's one of those that as long as I can walk, I'll be fine.
-
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
-
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.
-
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
