Evelyn Glennie Quotes

I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

Evelyn Glennie

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• I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Myself
  • Better Person

• I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Real
  • School
  • Career

• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Why
  • Hate
  • First Amendment

• The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Book
  • Think
  • Laugh

• We invite people in the West End to come find out how you can be a part and find out how you can make the neighborhood the best place to live.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • People
  • Invite
  • West End

• Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Eye

• After that it took me a little bit to get back on track.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Track
  • Get Back

• Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • People
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Free will is an empty term.

  

  John Calvin
  • Term
  • Free Will

• I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with compassion, strategic moves, and passing laws to protect animals, not throwing paint and flour on people. That only turns them away from your whole purpose of helping those without a voice.

  

  Katie Cleary
  • Purpose
  • Animals
  • Laws

• Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.

  

  Mohammad Javad Zarif
  • People
  • Personality
  • Share

• Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Difference

• When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

  

  Benjamin Jealous
  • Force
  • Selling

• Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

  

  Paul Eldridge
  • Bird
  • Triumphs
  • Praises

• Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

  

  Erik King
  • Miracle
  • Everyone
  • Minutes

• A good one was the album Adrenalize title. I wanted to call the album Dementia. I like the idea of having a trilogy of albums ending with 'ia'. Phil thought it was cool but wondered if it was a little contrived, like we were running out of good ia-sounding words. Joe hated it with a passion. After two and a half hours of discussion, he was so pissed off that we were still talking about this one word that he just turned around and said, 'Well, as far as I'm concerned, you might as well call the album BOB!!

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Passion
  • Album
  • Discussion

• Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Work
  • Wondered
  • Removed

• I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound affects the unconscious brain.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Fascinated
  • Wondered
  • Dolphins