Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Myself
  • Intellectual
  • Were

• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Successful

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Help

• When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • More
  • White

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • New York

• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Irritating

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Live
  • Me
  • Eat

• I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Air

• I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Protect

• I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Negative

• I love doing stunts.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Doing
  • I Love

• I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • High
  • New

• The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • World

• Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Men

• This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

  

  James Balog
  • Air
  • Breathe

• I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Period

• I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Dog
  • Pizza

• I know that song writing is probably the most mystical of the things that I do, in a sense that I'm not sure where it came from or how it started. It's something that I just knew how to do. It's something that just happens.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Writing
  • Song
  • I Know

• It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.

  

  Georges Perec
  • Live
  • Know
  • Wrong

• I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and it feels like magic. There is no explaining the magic. It floats in and then just like that, it floats out. There's no amount of money that will buy magic. I've watched myself try to coax it, but it is only when I relax and totally allow magic to envelop me that it has ever been kind.

  

  Bonnie Baker
  • Magic
  • Right words
  • Right Moment

• Music is the melody whose text is the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Text
  • Melody
  • Music Is