Jean Philippe Rameau Quotes

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Jean Philippe Rameau

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• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Balance

• Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Only
  • Medals

• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Test

• In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Pay
  • Employees

• I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trying

• I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Fan
  • Scared
  • Horror

• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Write
  • Understand
  • Order

• Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • School
  • Parents

• To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Me
  • Luxury

• 'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Movie
  • First

• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Gullible

• My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Job
  • Like
  • Better

• At the corner of the white marble platform, which is 23 yards above the level of the ground, stand four minarets, also of marble, with interior staircases and capped by cupolas, which are 7 cubits in diameter and rise to a total of 32 cubits from the pavement of the said platform to the filial, appearing as it were, like ladders reaching towards the heavens.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • God
  • Men
  • Ethics

• We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Future
  • Justice

• Why am I political? Because society's consistent and constant disregard and lack of respect for minorities, even the title minority, is too much to bear silently. Their insistence at our invisibility, whether subtle as noninclusion, or as loud and violent as hate crimes, is contagious, and can make me hide from myself.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Why
  • Society
  • Political

• I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I wrote, 'The Audition's Over' and put it on the door of my dorm.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Up
  • School
  • Drama

• And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.

  

  Ian Darke
  • Football
  • Soccer
  • Gone

• As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

  

  Stephen Frears
  • Actors
  • Protect
  • Directors

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.

  

  H. L. Mencken

• Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

  

  Jean Philippe Rameau