Joseph Haydn Quotes

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

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• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• Working gets in the way of living.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Way
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  • Living

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Relationship

• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Story
  • Own
  • Ending

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Reflect

• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

  N. K. Jemisin

• I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Married
  • Jealous

• I get hit on by the hottest girls ever. Oh my god, if I was a lesbian, I would be so in luck. But it's just not my thing. I've always batted for the boys' team.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • God
  • Girl
  • Team

• I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Day
  • Grandparents

• There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Doe

• I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Beautiful
  • Earth
  • Light

• I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Life
  • Good
  • Short

• The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Written
  • Grows

• (To Per on the stage) You sing false, you fucker!

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Stage
  • Sing

• I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

  

  Hal Linden
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.

  

  Rachel
  • Lost
  • Forever

• If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

  

  Joseph Haydn
  • Written
  • Sing
  • Accompaniment