Walter Piston Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I respect the Premier League.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne -
Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White -
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith -
I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.
Maggie Q
-
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
Umberto Guidoni -
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
Laura Hillenbrand -
Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
Kary Mullis -
Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
Dan Hill -
The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
Tabare Vazquez -
I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
Walter Cronkite
-
They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
Carlton Fisk -
The secret is I have no shame.
Dakota Johnson -
We see young leaders who embrace the diversity of this region not as a weakness, but as a strength, and who realize that even though we are all individually different and come from different traditions and different communities, we're stronger when we work together.
Barack Obama -
Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
Jane Jacobs -
I can never remember a time when I didn't want to be an actress, to be honest. And so, all through high school, I knew that I was gonna go to college in Los Angeles. I just didn't know where. And I knew that I was gonna try to get my theater degree.
Mikaela Hoover
-
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
Van Wyck Brooks -
At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
Tea Leoni -
I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
Alan Green -
Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.
Paul Nitze -
I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.
Walter Piston