Ellen Hunnicutt Quotes

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

Ellen Hunnicutt

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Myself
  • Walk

• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • True
  • Nature
  • Learning

• When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Good
  • Guy

• McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Businessman

• We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Age
  • Unique
  • Start

• I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Hamlet

• People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • True
  • Newspaper

• Endangered species are our friends.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Friends
  • Species
  • Endangered

• I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • Art
  • Free
  • Picture

• It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Money

• The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

  

  Ned Rorem
  • Music
  • Experience

• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Floor

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

  

  Ellen Hunnicutt
  • Music
  • Universe
  • Emotions