Alan Hovhaness Quotes

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Alan Hovhaness

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• Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Engineering

• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • End

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Difference
  • Crisis

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rock

• To survive is to win.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Win
  • Survive
  • To Survive

• The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Culture

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Marriage

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Me

• Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Father
  • Political

• I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Book
  • Road
  • Beach

• No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Revenge

• The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Thought
  • Emotional

• And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Emotional

• In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

  

  Christopher Shays
  • People
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy.

  

  Eric Church
  • Up
  • Money
  • Crazy

• The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Emotional
  • Simplicity