Ernest Newman Quotes

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

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• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Dad

• 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

• I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Said
  • Word
  • Congress

• I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • World
  • Believe
  • Heart

• This would mean a great deal to the Latin players, ... I think we'd all like to see baseball do this.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Great
  • Baseball
  • Players

• Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Patient
  • Doctors
  • Quack

• The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Happiness
  • Stagnation
  • Elation

• I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Thinking
  • America
  • College

• Reason is the servant of instinct.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Reason
  • Instinct
  • Servant

• Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want

  

  John Holt
  • Create
  • Fears
  • Manipulate

• But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Law
  • Notice
  • Counsell

• When everyone sees good, then bad exists.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Exists
  • Sees

• Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Stage
  • Fortunate
  • Salvador Dali

• To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Reason
  • Dictate
  • Command Of God

• He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Written
  • Announced
  • Strae

• The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Create
  • Resistance
  • Proletariat

• When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Said

• 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

• But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence.

  

  Plutarch
  • Respect
  • Heaven
  • Army

• I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Forever
  • Married

• A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Discovered
  • Composer