Evelyn Glennie Quotes

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

Evelyn Glennie

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• It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Amazing
  • Just
  • Now

• The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Always
  • Greatest
  • Equal

• I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Die
  • Rap

• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Community
  • New York

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Me
  • Travel

• In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

  

  Kanye West
  • Paris
  • Possible
  • Land

• If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Film

• My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Husband

• Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • God
  • Blessings

• Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Economy
  • Sales
  • Tax

• I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Father

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Summer
  • Year
  • Winter

• When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

  

  Epictetus
  • Theatre
  • Wise Men
  • Airs

• As an actor, it seems like we're always trying to get a job, so when you actually have a job, it's just amazing to get to work on your art on a daily basis and do what you love.

  

  Josh Holloway
  • Work
  • Love
  • Job

• I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

  

  Karen O
  • Taken
  • Like
  • Kid

• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • World
  • Night
  • Fire

• I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Kid
  • Walk
  • Instruments