Franz Schubert Quotes

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

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• Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Better
  • Peaceful

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Flexibility

• You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Good
  • Know
  • Bike

• Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Remember
  • Forget
  • Old

• We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Why
  • She
  • Help

• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hand
  • Creativity
  • Anxiety

• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Day

• The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Situation
  • Fever

• Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Friends
  • Guy

• The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Kid

• The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Days
  • Once

• That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Day

• When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Change

• It is a curious paradox that several of the greatest and most creative spirits in science, after achieving important discoveries by following their unfettered imaginations, were in their later years obsessed with reductionist philosophy and as a result became sterile. Hilbert was a prime example of this paradox. Einstein was another.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Important
  • Science

• I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Mom

• With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.

  

  Joyce Giraud
  • People
  • Best
  • See

• A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Brain
  • Ears

• What has three heads, six arms, and half a brain?" Three asked. One and Two answered in unison. "Nate Sutter.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Brain
  • Heads
  • Unison

• There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • Brain