Bent Sæther Quotes

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

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• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Party
  • Liberal
  • Corporate

• My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Look
  • Cooking

• Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Moment
  • Creation
  • Movement

• The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • War
  • Planning

• But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Love
  • Smile
  • Satisfaction

• The power of network television is amazing. I've been performing for years but have been seen on only a few episodes of this show, and people spot me in public now all the time. They say, 'Hey, aren't you on 'Nashville'?' Most locals seem to really appreciate how authentic the show is.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Baby
  • Sight
  • Alright

• It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual

• I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Important
  • Live

• If you don't like what you're getting back in life, take a look at what you're putting out.

  

  Pam Dreyer
  • Life

• ... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Republic
  • Sum
  • University Professor

• All of the libraries and schools that were devastated in the hurricane are suffering for the books that they need to get to children and I am very proud to be apart of this to restore it.

  

  Charles Alfred Leavell The Allman Brothers Band
  • Proud
  • Suffering
  • Schools

• I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Friend
  • Boy

• Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Guy

• Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Water

• There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

  

  George Brecht
  • Nothing
  • Musical
  • Instruments

• Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself in the form of Shirley Temple as last seen on the 'Good Ship Lollipop'?" The demon twirled around, its big pink sash fluttering as it smoothed down its dress and frilly little petticoat. "My grotesque form isn't making you sick with fright?" We both shook our heads, Noelle with a hand over her mouth to keep from laughing out loud. "Shirley Temple at her pinnacle was frightening," I finally told it, "but not in the sense I think you mean.

  

  Katie MacAlister
  • Good
  • Mean
  • Dress

• We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Musical
  • Hamsters