Philip Glass Quotes
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
Philip Glass
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
Laura Schlessinger
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile Selassie
I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
Gary Lineker
There's no such thing as failure if you just try.
Kendall Schmidt
Big Time Rush
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
Bill Gates
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Izaak Walton
If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!
Marvin J. Ashton
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
Philip Glass
