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

• 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 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

• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Relations

• I'm such a damn workaholic, that it's interesting to be like, "Oh, what do I do for fun?"

  

  Brad Williams
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Workaholic

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

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Stage
  • Sing

• Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Sing
  • Ancients
  • Golden Age

• There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

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

  

  Joseph Haydn
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  • Sing
  • Accompaniment