Lois McMaster Quotes

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

Lois McMaster

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• We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Believe
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• Any job is wonderful.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Job
  • Wonderful
  • Any

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Weird
  • Generation

• Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • May
  • Poetry

• The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Feelings

• One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Feelings

• I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Think
  • Quality
  • Wonderful

• There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Creative
  • Wonderful
  • Out

• Danny Ferry did a very good job when he was here and put the franchise up to a certain level, as did Mike Brown, and his contract had ended after five years, and, ultimately, both sides decided they wanted to do other things. No hard feelings at all there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

  

  Gay Talese
  • People
  • Wonderful
  • Escape

• Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Feeling
  • Water
  • Spiritual

• I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Sometimes

• There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • She
  • Truth
  • Career

• I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Work
  • Thing
  • Wonderful

• We have to consider culture respectfully, but on the other hand, it's dangerous. When we begin talking about cultures, we begin forgetting about individuals. Every individual is unique. Mankind has common feelings and ideas, but we might have some other connections, too. For example, I might be very close to someone in New York in some way. Because of the music I like or how I like to watch soccer games, or because I like to read Russian classics.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • World
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Style
  • King

• It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Feelings
  • Wonderful
  • Bizarre