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

• The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Benefit
  • Judgement
  • Sill

• There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the other great contribution is American musical theater, which is a whole other kettle of fish.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • American

• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Style

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

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Musical
  • Hamsters