Andres Segovia Quotes

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

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• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Writing
  • Girl

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Today
  • House
  • Alone

• The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • People
  • Pride
  • Leaving

• Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Amazing
  • Celebrity
  • Status

• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • Reflection
  • September

• Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • Live
  • Industry

• I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Think

• My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Fruit

• There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Better
  • Movies

• A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dog
  • Door
  • Wrong

• I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Name
  • Doors

• What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • You
  • Know
  • Will

• Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Reading
  • Wife

• What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

  

  Walter Scott
  • Soldier

• I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Culture

• The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Up

• Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Important

• How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wisdom
  • Terrible
  • Profit

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Perfect

• Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

  

  Andres Segovia