Ernest Newman Quotes

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Ernest Newman

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• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Role

• If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Understanding
  • Ideas
  • Better

• I choose to express myself.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Myself
  • Choose
  • Express

• It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Training

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Law
  • Play
  • Politics

• From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Live
  • Moments
  • Violence

• Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Little
  • Absurd

• My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • World
  • Science
  • Education

• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Control
  • Government
  • Failure

• Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Black
  • Chinese

• There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • School
  • Age
  • Guy

• I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up

• I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Rude

• In 1600, when Shakespeare's audience at the Globe heard 'Hamlet' for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Time
  • Wine
  • Hamlet

• Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Growth
  • Inspired

• I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Working
  • Economy
  • Taxes

• The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Inspired
  • Working
  • Composer