Johannes Brahms Quotes

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Johannes Brahms

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• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Humanity
  • Silver

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Family
  • Know

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Theatre

• A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • History
  • Culture

• I'm going to make myself seem more mysterious because I'm really not so mysterious. Or, if I am, it's because everybody is a mystery. Now that I'm older, at least I can be more amused by what people said.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Mysterious

• As image and apprehension are in an organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Soul
  • Christian
  • Unity

• What is the moral argument for an affirmative action that justifies unending race discrimination against a declining white working class, who have become the expendables of our multicultural regime?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Action
  • Moral

• TO-MORROW, to-morrow, thou loveliest May,To-morrow will rise up thy first-born day;Bride of the summer, child of the spring,To-morrow the year will its favourite bring:

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Up
  • May
  • Summer

• To stand out in the crowd I liked the color purple.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Color
  • Purple

• If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

  

  Alan Sugar

• The crime is now logical and reasonable.

  

  Agatha Christie

• In the street the rain was little more than a fine mist which softened the outlines of the houses and even lent a touch of poetry to a neighbourhood unlikely to evoke tender emotions. He raised his eyes to a roofline bristling with television aerials, lowered them again to windows still blank before the evening lights were lit.

  Anita Brookner
  • Eyes
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • She

• Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Environment

• Time is like a very good friend who you don't see very often.

  

  Wissam Al Mana
  • Time
  • Friend
  • See

• If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

  

  Ace Antonio Hall
  • Success
  • Teen
  • Tell

• It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

  

  Johannes Brahms