Morton Feldman Quotes

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

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• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Need
  • Mine

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.

  

  Michael Peter Balzary Atoms for Peace
  • Chaos
  • Take
  • Worth

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Law

• We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Bad

• Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.

  

  William C. Somerville
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Remember

• There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.

  

  Sabrina Salerno
  • Hope
  • Emotional
  • Break

• Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Heavens
  • Two Things

• Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Believe
  • Road
  • Optimism

• A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Strenght
  • Freeman
  • Hindered

• ...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Child
  • Existence
  • Moral Crime

• By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • English
  • Friendship
  • Save

• When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Person
  • Interest
  • Rules

• I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Break
  • Understood