Susanne Langer Quotes
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Langer
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
Sally Quinn
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
Rachel Zoe
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
Larry Elder
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
E. F. Schumacher
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom
Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
Patrick Warburton
It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I enjoy every role I do.
Ian McShane
I'm not someone who feels settled.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
Cab Calloway
At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.
Samuel Beckett
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
Mahatma Gandhi
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
Beverly Sills
When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.
Thomas Rhett
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.
Johan Cruyff
The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.
Alfred Bunn
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Langer
