Hector Berlioz Quotes
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
Quotes to Explore
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.
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Before 'Giant,' I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It's really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the 'genius' book.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
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Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
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I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
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In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.
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I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
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But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.
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Washington, D.C., had never seen my style of politics.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
