Zubin Mehta Quotes

Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

Zubin Mehta

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• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Vacation

• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• I don't have any nicknames.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Any
  • Nicknames

• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Stories
  • Tennis
  • Brilliant

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Found

• I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Never
  • Him
  • Even

• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Religion
  • Rich
  • Poor

• I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Day
  • Bible

• When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Man
  • You

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• I fed my ego, but not my soul.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Soul
  • Ego
  • My Soul

• Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Done

• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Cold

• It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Time
  • Money
  • Nice

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Peace

• Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Crazy
  • Regret

• Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

  

  Peter Abrahams
  • Life

• San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Leave
  • San Francisco
  • Drawbacks

• Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trust
  • Persons
  • Organization

• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Love
  • Home
  • Imagination

• Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Eighth