Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes

Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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• I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Song
  • Never
  • Pressure

• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Deep
  • Queen
  • Purple

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Great
  • Like
  • Feel

• As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Nature
  • Childhood
  • Transformation

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Want

• I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Country
  • Remember
  • You

• Yoga is just good for you.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • You
  • Yoga

• The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Society
  • Value
  • Revolution

• Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Important
  • Study

• So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• 'Cause baby now we got bad blood.You know it used to be mad love.So take a look at what you've done.'Cause baby now we got bad blood.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Baby

• With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries...What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Good
  • May
  • Value

• I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Water
  • Boy

• I still remember him fondly, there in the doorway. He was absolutely the first person to show me how comfortable it is to arrive in a strange, potentially hostile environment, and discover that you have been preceded by your reputation, that you don't have to do anything to be accepted, that your name is known, that everyone knows about you, and it's the others, the strangers, who must strive to win your favor, and not you theirs.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Remember
  • Environment
  • Strange

• The person who has a highly evolved will they think, they build an image and they focus on that image.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Focus
  • Image
  • Build

• Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams