Brian Ferneyhough Quotes

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

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• I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Performer
  • Hyper
  • Nelly

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Women
  • Morning
  • Myself

• Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Men
  • Me
  • Shoes

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • You
  • Like
  • Burn

• There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Fun
  • Star
  • Thought

• Those who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of their acts, and our own posture of self-defence.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • World
  • Truth
  • Wish

• The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

  

  James Hillman
  • History
  • Black
  • Depression

• Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • People
  • Dream

• It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Country
  • Reality

• When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Words

• I'm like this. When I feel something, I want to do something, I do it - I just do it. So I'm like this also in my life: if I want to wear some crazy clothes, I put it on.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Life
  • Crazy

• I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

  

  Adrian Edmondson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Waiting

• I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Ambition

• Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Good
  • Art
  • Science

• It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Power
  • Government

• My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Courage

• 'They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Bird
  • Flying

• The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough