George Crumb Quotes

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George Crumb

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• Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Funny

• Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Future
  • Same
  • Diversity

• And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Read
  • Theater
  • Journalism

• Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • True

• I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Thoughts
  • Prayer
  • Search

• When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Soul
  • You
  • Care

• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Long
  • Three
  • Radio

• It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today

• We have an alliance that was forged more than a half century ago, and strengthened by shared interests and democratic values. Our people share ties of family, ties of culture, and ties of commerce. Our troops have served to protect Japan’s shores, and our citizens have found opportunity and friendship in Japan’s cities and towns.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • Culture

• The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Reality

• From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • Men
  • War
  • Happy

• Nous désirons passionnément qu'il y ait une autre vie où nous serions pareils à ce que nous sommes ici-bas. Mais nous ne réfléchissons pas que, même sans attendre cette autre vie, dans celle-ci, au bout de quelques années, nous sommes infidèles à ce que nous avons été, à ce que nous voulions rester immortellement.

  

  Marcel Proust

• I run in the West Side highway. I've gotten recognized, but unless you're a runner, you really can't do nothing but just point.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura

• I worked in a comic shop for five years, and the amount of titles I could excitedly recommend to teenage girls was pretty abysmal for awhile.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Pretty

• You're not going to please everybody. I've just got to do whatever I feel is right, just use my judgment.

  

  Blake Griffin

• Jamie Foxx. He's been very much a mentor and friend, and we've worked together several times. He's just been such an influence in my career. There's nothing that man can't do, and that's something I would like to reflect in my career.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • Together
  • Career
  • Friend

• Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Digital
  • Microsoft
  • Nervous System

• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Good
  • Music
  • Survive

• I'm mortified!

  

  Jimmy Durante

• The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

  

  George Crumb