Yehudi Menuhin Quotes
The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.
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Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.
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Why did people think they could be alone? Everyone you loved or hated or touched or who made you tremble or bruised you—they were always there, ready to enter and take over the room. It didn’t matter at all if you opened the door or not. They came rushing in. They knew the way, knew how to make themselves at home.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed?
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The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.
