Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
Quotes to Explore
-
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
-
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
-
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
-
Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
-
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
-
I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
-
No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
-
I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
-
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
-
My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
-
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
-
The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
-
I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
-
I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
-
Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
-
The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.
-
Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.
-
Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
-
For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!
-
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
-
Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.
-
Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
