Richard Wagner Quotes

Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

Richard Wagner

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• The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Way
  • Change
  • Proactive

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Never

• If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Money
  • You
  • Looking

• Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Know
  • Focus

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • True
  • Man
  • Friend

• I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Success
  • Talent

• My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Dream
  • Discover
  • My Own

• Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Remember
  • Best
  • Advice

• I called it 'Cloud 9' because that's the place I want to take people when they are listening to my music. It's also where I am when I make music.

  

  Kygo
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.

  

  Don Rickles
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Work
  • Hate

• I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Lies

• I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

  

  David Hockney

• Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

  

  John Updike
  • Good
  • Singing

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • World
  • Everything
  • According