Frederic Chopin Quotes

I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

Frederic Chopin

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• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Me
  • Young
  • Influence

• I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worth

• You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Live
  • True
  • Dreams

• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Free
  • Education
  • Educate

• We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • City
  • Desire
  • Chicago

• The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Design

• If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

  

  Tony Snow
  • God
  • Promise
  • Eternity

• I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.

  

  Warryn Campbell
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Radio

• The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Power
  • Fashion
  • Changing

• Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Challenge
  • Lies
  • Beauty

• I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

  

  Michael Giles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Never

• Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

  

  Gene Kranz
  • Safety
  • Changed
  • Program

• I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Amazed
  • Germans
  • I Don't Know