William Mountford Quotes

The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.

William Mountford

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Singing

• A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Knowledge
  • Passion

• I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Travel

• In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • World
  • Government
  • Name

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Destroy

• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  

  Pat Morita
  • People
  • May
  • Know

• While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Quality

• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • May
  • Day
  • Lies

• I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Drawing

• I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Honor
  • Wolf

• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Car

• People should be allowed to roll out of bed and go to an interview; people shouldn't be telling you, 'You can't curse because it's not ladylike.' I don't believe in those standards.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Believe

• If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

  

  Daniel Stern

• If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Regret

• The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Experience
  • Law
  • Wisdom

• And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

  

  Esther Earl
  • Forever
  • Wise
  • Stars

• The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.

  

  William Mountford
  • Heart
  • Lasts
  • Ready