Carlo Grante Quotes

The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.

Carlo Grante

• Interesting
• Incredibles
• Essentials
• Exposed
• Handel
• Brahms

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Style

• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Interesting
  • Write

• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Only

• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Interesting
  • Happen
  • Bedroom

• I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Interesting

• Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Language

• For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chance to really act emotionally, because the situation is an extreme one.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Democracy

• We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Interesting
  • Balance

• I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It come partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and oldmaidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Habit

• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Together
  • Society
  • Interesting

• I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Interesting

• For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Poetry

• People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• What I find the most interesting about games is the feeling of accomplishment. I think this is an emotion that cinema can't do and books can't do. You feel like you've personally accomplished something. You feel you get better at something.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Feeling
  • Interesting
  • Accomplishment

• Conflict is always more interesting to play. Not everyone gets along in the trauma unit. In a hard-pressed job like this, there will always be friction.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Job
  • Interesting

• It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America - was one of fear, and trust of government. Because we put ourselves in the hands of the authority who was going to protect us. And, you know, we gave up a lot of our liberties to Homeland Security, etc.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Up
  • America
  • Political

• It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • God
  • True
  • Greatness

• With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

  

  Bob Edwards

• I used to waterski on the Niagara River.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • River

• The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Interesting
  • Incredibles
  • Essentials