Alan Hovhaness Quotes

I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.

Alan Hovhaness

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• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Problems
  • Plan
  • Bold

• The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • Reality

• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Family
  • Single
  • Simple

• It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Great
  • Government

• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Dance

• People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Dream
  • Day

• In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Up
  • Home
  • Stop

• One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Time
  • Black
  • Style

• The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Small
  • Difficult
  • Big

• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • She
  • True

• Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Myself
  • Morning
  • Son

• History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Wife
  • Month
  • Marrying

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Vision
  • Sun

• Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Church
  • Catholic

• We always feel better in anticipation. You don't think about something and think 'Aw, it's gonna be shitty.' NO! You say 'This is gonna be the greatest weekend ever! Sonuvabitch!' And then, by Monday, you're throwing up and you're thinking 'You know, I always thought those guys were pricks!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Weekend

• We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Wisdom
  • Fart
  • Puffed up

• In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Stage
  • Now
  • London

• I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Down
  • Step
  • Seriously

• I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Seriously
  • Realized
  • Composing