Meredith Monk Quotes
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.Meredith Monk
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
Bea Arthur -
I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.
Jack Brickhouse -
I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"
Andrew Solomon -
Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.
Oprah Winfrey -
Generally speaking, there's a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage. It's not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is - imagine the cartilage of game meat.If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, "What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire," I'd be like, "That's moose nose!"
Adam Richman
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You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.
Curtis Hanson -
Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.
Marianne Williamson -
When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.
Tony Kushner -
You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.
Emperor Hirohito -
Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.
Matthew Pearl -
To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it.
Socrates
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I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
Albert Einstein -
I would imagine the ones they really like!
Ian Hunter -
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.
Joseph Stalin -
Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!
Kate Morton -
Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.
Blaise Pascal
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If he didn't have the calf situation, he would have practiced, ... He played extremely well. . . . The game was very physical and he got some hits. Quarterback-wise, the odds that we can go through the year like that and keep the guy healthy. . . . I hope we can keep him healthy.
Joe Gibbs -
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
Albert Camus -
If the actor believes in the moment, the audience believes in it, too.
Radhika Apte -
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
Meredith Monk