Eric Whitacre Quotes
For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.
Quotes to Explore
-
A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
-
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
-
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
-
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
-
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
-
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
-
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
-
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
-
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
-
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
-
When you have children love is always there in the best form.
-
I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
-
I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
-
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
-
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
-
My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
-
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.
-
No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.
-
If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.
-
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
-
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
-
For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.
